[PHOTOGRAPHY] Cities at night

Baltimore at night - October 16 2012 photo credits: Expedition 32 Crew

Talk about signaling the outer space we are here. While our cities are so well lighted we often are surprised to find there's no star sky above us, from space, the Earth looks like it's Christmas every night.


�Nighttime light is the most interesting data that I�ve had a chance to work with,� confessed Chris Elvidge, with the Earth Observation Group at NOAA�s National Geophysical Data Center. �I�m always amazed at what city light images show us about human activity.�

London at night, March 27, 2012 - photo taken by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on Suomi NPP,

Shanghai City at night - March 27, 2012 - The crew in Expedition 30 took this photo with a Nikon D3S digital camera using an 85 mm lens.

Dubai City at night, February 22, 2012, - photo taken with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 400 mm lens,by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.

Kuwait city at night - NASA August 9, 2012 taken by the Expedition 32 crew with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 400 mm lens

Istanbul at night - NASA August 9, 2012 - photo taken by the Expedition 32 crew with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 400 mm lens

Southeastern USA lights at night:Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia, January 29, 2012

Iberian Peninsula at night, December 26, 2011