NASA's novel composite satellite map of Earth shows the distribution of artificial lights around the world. The then called 'Black Marble' map of Earth is made upwards of the best cloud-free satellite images of each dry soil majority captured during 2016.
The novel Black Marble map tin halt besides endure compared alongside the final major satellite map that was created to demo Earth at night, released past times NASA inward 2012. By comparison the ii maps it is possible to run into where lights convey been going on together with off around the globe inward the final 5 years.
If you lot desire you lot tin halt thought the novel Black Marble map on NASA's Black Marble: 2012 vs 2016 interactive map. This map allows you lot to swipe betwixt the ii NASA maps together with compare the changing scale of natural lighting around the world. For example, if you lot opened upwards the map using the link higher upwards you lot tin halt clearly run into the number that the Syrian state of war has had on electricity provide inward the country.
John Nelson has besides compared NASA's 2012 together with 2016 Black Marble maps to run into where inward Earth lights convey been going on together with off. His Lights On & Lights Out map highlights the locations around Earth where in that location convey been pregnant changes inward electrical lighting since 2012.
Nelson points out inward the text accompanying the map that in that location are many reasons why places powerfulness demo an increase or decrease inward electrical lighting. The increase inward Republic of Republic of India is due to the "massive electrification of northern Republic of Republic of India inward recent years". Elsewhere reductions inward nighttime lighting may endure due (among other reasons) to attempts to trim low-cal pollution.
