The Earth At Night

NASA's Black Marble map of the basis at nighttime is the best means to persuasion the distribution of artificial lights around the world. The Black Marble is a composite map made upward of the best cloud-free satellite images of the basis taken at night.

Cities at Night intend that they tin genuinely better on NASA's Black Marble map. This citizen scientific discipline projection is using crowd-sourcing to pose the locations inwards night-time photographs of the basis captured past times astronauts on board the International Space Station. NASA has near one-half a i M one thousand of these pictures now. Many of them furnish much higher Definition aerial night-time views of towns too cities across the globe than tin last institute on the Black Marble map.

You tin contribute to this novel night-time map of the basis past times helping Cities at Night form the locations inwards the photographs taken past times astronauts from the ISS. You tin likewise browse the 2,500 photographs classified too thus far on this map. The map shows the locations of nighttime fourth dimension images taken from the ISS identified past times volunteers of Cities at Night.