Earth at night on december 5th 2010 scientists unveiled an unprecedented new look at our planet at night.
Black marble earth at night.
Along with their primary purpose of supporting the short term weather prediction and disaster response communities they also provide new data for tracking wildfires gas flares and light pollution and have numerous socioeconomic uses such as proxying economic activity monitoring changes in.
Night light maps open up new applications.
This composite image of the earth as a black marble shows asia and australia in 2016.
Nasa s black marble enables a wide range of applications for a broad spectrum of data users.
Nasa has released new high definition satellite images of earth s night lights for the first time since 2012.
A global composite image constructed using cloud free night images from a new nasa and national oceanic and atmospheric administration noaa satellite shows the glow of natural and human built phenomena across the.