This composite image of the earth as a black marble shows asia and australia in 2016.
Black marble earth at night.
Night light maps open up new applications.
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.
Nasa has released new high definition satellite images of earth s night lights for the first time since 2012.
By removing natural and stray light sources researchers have provided a clearer picture of the human footprint on earth and opened up new opportunities in disaster response demographics and applied research.
Nasa s black marble enables a wide range of applications for a broad spectrum of data users.
Earth at night on december 5th 2010 scientists unveiled an unprecedented new look at our planet at night.