Americas at night. Black marble satellite image of North and South America at night. More densely populated areas are brighter. The nocturnal glow pro

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Americas at night. Black marble satellite image of North and South America at night. More densely populated areas are brighter. The nocturnal glow produced by the Earth's atmosphere is shown as well as man-made light. The clouds of Hurricane Sandy are seen off the coast of Florida, USA. Data acquired by the day-night band of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on board the NASA-NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite, over nine days in April 2012 and 13 days in October 2012.

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