Pictures Of Earth From Space At Night

In these images taken by both satellites and astronauts living on the international space station earth s strange and colorful terrain comes into focus from a fascinating new perspective.
Pictures of earth from space at night. Satellite photo of earth at night shown below is a famous nasa image that is often called a satellite photo of earth at night it isn t really a photo instead it is an image that was compiled using data from a sensor aboard the nasa noaa suomi national polar orbiting partnership satellite launched in 2011. With hardware from the earth orbiting international space station appearing in the near foreground a night time european panorama reveals city lights from belgium and the netherlands at bottom. Scientists unveiled today an unprecedented new look at our planet at night. As if you needed another reason to want to leave earth behind on a spacecraft the images in this gallery show the absolute beauty that would await you outside our world.
Earth at night this composite image which has become a popular poster shows a global view of earth at night compiled from over 400 satellite images. A global composite image constructed using cloud free night images from a new nasa and national oceanic and atmospheric administration noaa satellite shows the glow of natural and human built phenomena across the planet in greater detail than ever before.