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In April 2017, NASA scientists released a new global map of Earth taken at night. This composite map was produced with data from all months of year in 2016.
In this Sketchfab timelapse, the global map of night lights as observed in 2016 can be compared with that of 2012.
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Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data from Miguel RomΓ‘n, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
Flat maps of 2012 and 2016 used in this model are available in high resolution at NASA Earth Observatory’s “Night Lights” website.
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