[PHOTOGRAPHY] Cities at night

Baltimore at night - October 16 2012 photo credits: Expedition 32 Crew

Talk about signaling the outer space we are here. While our cities are so well lighted we often are surprised to find there's no star sky above us, from space, the Earth looks like it's Christmas every night.


“Nighttime light is the most interesting data that I’ve had a chance to work with,” confessed Chris Elvidge, with the Earth Observation Group at NOAA’s National Geophysical Data Center. “I’m always amazed at what city light images show us about human activity.”

London at night, March 27, 2012 - photo taken by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on Suomi NPP,

Shanghai City at night - March 27, 2012 - The crew in Expedition 30 took this photo with a Nikon D3S digital camera using an 85 mm lens.

Dubai City at night, February 22, 2012, - photo taken with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 400 mm lens,by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.

Kuwait city at night - NASA August 9, 2012 taken by the Expedition 32 crew with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 400 mm lens

Istanbul at night - NASA August 9, 2012 - photo taken by the Expedition 32 crew with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 400 mm lens

Southeastern USA lights at night:Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia, January 29, 2012

Iberian Peninsula at night, December 26, 2011

[PHOTOGRAPHY] Looking down at storms from above

Heavy storm approaching the southern coast of Alaska on September 26, 2012.

You can find more photos of storms, typhoons and hurricanes from the above on NASA's Earth Observatory site here . These photos are possible thanks to Sumoi NPP, a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Department of Defense.

Hurricane Gordon over the Atlantic Ocean on August 19, 2012

Typhoons Saola and Damrey  over the western Pacific Ocean in August 2012

Hurricane Andrew struck on August 23 as a Category 3 hurricane causing $26.5 billion in damages - August 24, 1992

Hurricane Michael had wind speeds of 90 miles/150 kilometers per hour on September 9 2012

Miriam began forming September 22, 2012, only as as a tropical depression over the eastern Pacific Ocean, but two days later it turned into a Category 3 hurricane

Typhoon Bopha moving towards Philippines December 3 2012. It packed winds of 260 kilometers per hour and gusts up to 315 kilometers per hour.

[PHOTOGRAPHY] Pictures from NASA of the Earth's atmosphere and a treat

dust plumes off the coasts of Iran and Pakistan, November 29, 2012 - NASA images

 

NASA published this image of cloud vortices above the southern Atlantic Ocean Island of St. Helena- November 15, 2012

Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast and using the Suomi NPP satellite and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, NASA caught a glimpse of the sediments the storm brought up from the continental shelf.

Eye of the storm approaching the southern coast of Alaska on September 26, 2012.

Image taken by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, which has been traveling in outer space for the past 35 years. Image was taken by Imaging Science Subsystem on Voyager 1 when the spacecraft was closest to the Earth:September 18, 1977

[PHOTOGRAPHY] Is it winter there too?

Winter landscapes by littlemewhatever

 It's not that we're fans of the low temperatures, ice under our feet and overall discomfort of going on with our lives in the city during the winter. But it's impossible not to recognize, winter is great for artsy photography. We took deviantArt by storm and found these beautiful winter photographs (landscape, macro and portrait). We're thinking if winter is here...at least we should start the new season with a positive touch.

Winter's fairytale by karinephoto

Winter by Marquis73

Winter by voorikvergeet

Winter by verdas

Winter in Poland by Sesjusz

Dana Nicolaescu here

Winter moon by CristianaPantea

Happy winter by fruitpunch1

Winter by Sandra Rugina

Winter wallpaper by emats

Winter Time by Sesjusz

Winter Reflection by porbital

[PHOTOGRAPHY] Black Marble - City Lights by NASA Earth Observatory

Americas

NASA released earlier this year (2012) a great set of photos showing the night side of the Earth, with the city lights. The data was gathered with the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite over nine days in April and October.

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Once a normal boy, loved dearly by his kind hearted mother until she lost her last breath to the king’s soldiers. The king’s orders were that those who do not pay full taxes would be stripped from their land. The horrible death his mother suffered meant nothing to the men so called heroes. They threw her with her son clinging on to her into the ocean to be the next meal to all the carnivores of the sea. What the murderous soldiers did not know was that the little boy did not die during the attack, he held onto his mother so that he would never lose her. A deadly hatred was born in the heart of this small boy. A magical mermaid found him and raised him after the death of his mother. Decades past and the little boy learned lots of things throughout the years and so became the demon of the sea.

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It is said that the smell of bloods wakes the life threatening beast. The lands always keep the peace between each other to avoid the horror of being the victims of the green gas breathing creature. This magnificent dragon’s story started out centuries ago when one selfish king declared war against the land because he wanted to be the ruler of all the lands. On the day of the first attack, when the first drop of blood fell, they discovered a fierce monster that chose no side just the lives of soldiers.

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Adopted by scaled creatures and raised by them the dragon rider had a magnificent quest to fulfill  The quest of destiny is that he should grow up into a strong man before he goes back to his birth land.  He is the one to take back his homeland, kill the king and take his place on the throne like his father before him.

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They believe that the forests along with all the woods should belong to than and so the orcs declared war against the mighty elves.

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