land_ocean_ice_lights_2048.jpg
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Land, Ocean Color, Sea Ice, City Lights from the Blue Marble page at NASA's Earth Observatory.
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from The World Atlas of the Artificial Night Sky Brightness Colours correspond to ratios between the artificial sky brightness and the natural sky brightness of: <0.11 (black), 0.11-0.33 (blue), 0.33-1 (green), 1-3 (yellow), 3-9 (orange), >9 (red). see the Light Pollution Science and Technology Institute and the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Credit: P. Cinzano, F. Falchi (University of Padova), C. D. Elvidge (NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder). Copyright Royal Astronomical Society. Reproduced from the Monthly Notices of the RAS by permission of Blackwell Science. This image was transformed to accurate global coordinates by Felix Andrews.
night-brilliant.jpg
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"The Brilliant Earth" Taken from Andrew Sumner's XGlobe/XPlanet maps page. He says this is... ANOTHER NIGHT MAP, created from the Earth & Moon Viewer Copyright (C) The Living Earth.
night-dark.jpg
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Taken from Andrew Sumner's XGlobe/XPlanet maps page. This is his NIGHT MAP.
night-electric.jpg
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(this is the default night map that comes with xplanet) This is a scaled version of http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/earth_lights_lrg.jpg Details about this file can be found at http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?5826 This image is not copyrighted.
night_jk.jpg
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Contributed by Jan Kaluza.