Planet Earth view from Space Station

[SpArK]

 

[Mo12]

Why is Russia and West China so dark?

 

[Splurgenxs]

Why is Russia and West China so dark?

This could usually amount to population density and/or the density of proper cities and towns with electricity and lighting.
A good view to chk were the people are really at.

Where most of china is based in the east due to better terrain...
The Russians are all situated down south of Russia as the northern region is Very cold and inhospitable .

 

[Safriz]

i know why pakistan is dark...
the picture was taken during load shedding

 

[Water Car Engineer]

This could usually amount to population density and/or the density of proper cities and towns with electricity and lighting.
A good view to chk were the people are really at.

Where most of china is based in the east due to better terrain...
The Russians are all situated down south of Russia as the northern region is Very cold and inhospitable .

Most of the Russians live in the west near Europe. Large parts of Russia are uninhabited.

i know why pakistan is dark...
the picture was taken during load shedding

It's not dark, Sindh and Punjab are lighten up.

 

[BelligerentPacifist]

i know why pakistan is dark...
the picture was taken during load shedding

Pakistan always only lights up at the population centres along the Indus.

 

[VCheng]

Here is a better image of the Indus valley at night from space:

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Hosted at Flickr:


Pak-India-BD at night by vcheng552000, on Flickr

 

[BelligerentPacifist]

^Why are there different colours?

 

[VCheng]

^Why are there different colours?

It is a composite image.

 

[genmirajborgza786]

Doesn't such a beautiful place deserve to be cleaned of humans?

yes it needs to be cleaned of only those lunatics who wants to clean this earth of humans

 

[HinduAtheist]

Debris around Mother Earth



Here's a close up

 

[Durrak]

 

[Chogy]

Here's one of the most famous pictures of the Earth ever taken... Apollo 8 was launched in 1968, and was the first time humans left Earth orbit. Their mission was to orbit the moon, practicing the route that would eventually take humans to the surface of the moon.

As the astronauts completed their first orbit around the dark side of the moon, they witnessed the Earth as a globe rising above the lunar horizon.

Only a handful of humans, all Apollo astronauts, have seen the Earth in this way.

 

[IndoCarib]

Debris around Mother Earth



Here's a close up

Are these satellites around earth ? Amazing !!

 

[Unbeliever]

I really love astronomy and cosmology, thanks for these pictures. It is so humbling to see our pale blue dot out there in the nothingness of space. We all share it and should realize that we all share the same fate ultimately.


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