Night glow from space: India and world

....and God said let there be light !!
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Lights of our nights.... !!

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An invocation to the Light divine:

 

"Lead me from the unreal to the Real.
Lead me from darkness unto Light.
Lead me from death to Immortality."

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It is through 'Divine Light' that a seeker can escape the bondage of mortal life and be reborn in the 'Life Divine'.

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The image, taken on November 12, 2012 – when the celebrations for the Hindu festival of lights were in full swing – shows Indian towns and cities brightly lit.

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A view of the Indian subcontinent.
Photo: On November 12, 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite captured this nighttime view of southern Asia. Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Department of Defense.
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using VIIRS day-night band data from the Suomi NPP.

A view of northern and central India.
Photo: On November 12, 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite captured this nighttime view of southern Asia. Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Department of Defense.
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using VIIRS day-night band data from the Suomi NPP.

A view of central and southern India.
Photo: On November 12, 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite captured this nighttime view of southern Asia. Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Department of Defense.
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using VIIRS day-night band data from the Suomi NPP.

Photo: This new image of the Earth at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite over nine days in April 2012 and thirteen days in October 2012. It took 312 orbits and 2.5 terabytes of data to get a clear shot of every parcel of Earth’s land surface and islands.
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data provided courtesy of Chris Elvidge (NOAA National Geophysical Data Center).

Photo: This image of Asia and Australia at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. The new data was mapped over existing Blue Marble imagery of Earth to provide a realistic view of the planet.
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data provided courtesy of Chris Elvidge (NOAA National Geophysical Data Center).

Light pattern showing continued story of human civilization in the region:

Everything Is Illuminated

Image courtesy NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC

Patterns of population density emerge in this composite image of the United States released by NASA on Wednesday, part of a global composite image captured from spa

ce by a NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite.

The cloud-free images show the glow of natural and artificial light in what a NASA press release calls the most detailed night images yet.

The images were unveiled during the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco.

Published December 5, 2012

Along the Nile

Image courtesy NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC

A brightly illuminated Nile River Valley tells the continued story of human civilization in the region. The nighttime image was captured by the Suomi NPP satellite's new senso

r, what NASA calls the "day-night band" of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), which is able to detect light in a range of wavelengths.

According to NASA, the new sensor is sensitive enough to detect "the light from a single ship in the sea."

Published December 5, 2012

#The images thankfully shared from the above mentioned credit sources of the NASA, the U.S. space agency.

# link to to browse NASA’s city lights map of the world.

 http://earthdata.nasa.gov/labs/worldview/?map=-24.484375,14.05078125,50.75,62.14453125&products=baselayers.VIIRS_CityLights_2012~overlays.sedac_bound&switch=geographic