forwarded from subscriber Sheryll Greer

[ted]

On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 10:29:01 -0600 Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@ando.pair.com>
wrote:

> Check the link below...This is really a sight
> to
>       behold. The image is a panoramic view of
> the world from the
>       new space station. It is a night photo
> with the lights
>       clearly indicating the populated areas.
>       You can scroll East-West and North-South.
> 
>       You can see Dallas, Houston, and the
> Austin-San Antonio Corridor.
> 
>       Note that Canada's population is almost
> exclusively
>       along the US border. Moving east to
> Europe, there is a high
>       population concentration along the
> Mediterranean Coast. It's easy
>       to spot London, Paris, Stockholm and
> Vienna.
> 
>       Note the Nile River and the rest of the
> "Dark Continent." 
>       After the Nile, the lights don't come on
> again until
>       Johannesburg. Look at the Australian
> Outback and the
>       Trans-Siberian Rail Route. Moving east,
> the most
>       striking observation is the difference
> between north and South
>       Korea. Note the density of Japan.
> 
>       What a piece of photography. It is an
> absolutely
>       awesome picture of the Earth taken from
> the Boeing built Space
>       Station last November on a perfect night
> with no obscuring
>       atmospheric conditions.

Nope:
<from NASA>

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020810.html


Explanation: This is what the Earth looks like at night. Can you find your
favorite country or city? Surprisingly, city lights make this task quite
possible. Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated
areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe, the eastern
United States, and Japan. Many large cities are located near rivers or oceans
so that they can exchange goods cheaply by boat. Particularly dark areas
include the central parts of South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The
above image is actually a 

*^composite of hundreds of pictures^* 

made by the orbiting DMSP satellites. 

At least be accurate.

B Huerta.