Name: Animation of Rotating Earth at Night
Uploaded: 2016-05-19T20:40:10Z
Duration: 30 s
Description: Animation of Rotating Earth at Night (view of Earth's city lights) This new global view and animation of Earth's city lights is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite. This new data was then mapped over existing Blue Marble imagery of Earth to provide a realistic view of the planet.

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Animation of Rotating Earth at Night

Added on 19 May 2016

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Animation of Rotating Earth at Night (view of Earth's city lights)
This new global view and animation of Earth's city lights is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite. This new data was then mapped over existing Blue Marble imagery of Earth to provide a realistic view of the planet.