NASA's Dramatic Earth Images at Night

A continental capture of the United States. The new data from NASA was mapped over existing Blue Marble imagery of Earth to provide a realistic view of the planet, made possible by the new "day-night band" of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). Click to see more photos of the Earth at night.

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