The United States at Night April-Oct 2012

NASA ^ | 12/6/2012 | NASA

[Dallas59]

This image of the continental United States at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. The image was made possible by the satellite's "day-night band" of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as city lights, gas flares, auroras, wildfires and reflected moonlight.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks KoRn, an ‘extra, extra’ ping to APoD members.

[Squawk 8888]

Western end of Lake Ontario is blinding, my stompting ground as long as I can remember.

[ichabod1]

Love all those guys - Gilmore, Ely, Hancock, Maines, etc., The Highlanders.

[Michael.SF.]

As do I. Flatlanders though, they are from Texas, not Scotland!

;)

[Conan the Librarian]

Just think of how much money we could be saving if we just cut all that light loss in half.

Full Cutoff Lights!

[ichabod1]

Duh! :)

[JoeProBono]