Night Time World Map
This composite image which has become a popular poster shows a global view of earth at night compiled from over 400 satellite images.
Night time world map. Nasa researchers have used these images of nighttime lights to study weather around urban areas. Nasa s goddard space flight center kathryn mersmann. Hover your mouse over the map to highlight time zones. Back apps api.
Doesn t work in older versions of ie ie8 and below find the current time offset displayed in whole hours only from coordinated universal time utc at the bottom of the. Utc time wednesday june 24 2020 at 19 56 00. Hovering the mouse over any location on the map will show the map will show the altitude of the sun as seen from that location. Home sun moon day and night world map.
Date to date calculator duration business date to date exclude holidays date calculator add subtract business date exclude holidays international dialing codes. Day and night map. 4 weeks 1 day 12 hours 6 hours 1 hour 10 minutes now 10 minutes 1. Most of the large cities of canada are located within a couple hundred miles of the united states border.
Click on any red dot and go to that city s page with time weather sunrise set moon phases and lots more. The map has been made entirely with black and white photography. Currently the best available map of the earth at night is the black marble map. The thick yellow line shows where sunset and sunrise are currently occurring.
This map shows the geographic distribution of night time lights in the united states canada mexico and the caribbean. Moon light world map. The images used to build the map have a scale of about 750 metres per pixel. Countdown to any date.
It orbits the earth and has sensors that collect observations about earth s atmosphere and surface during night time hours. Nasa scientists have just released the first new global map of earth at night since 2012. By studying earth at night researchers can investigate how cities expand monitor light intensity to estimate energy use and economic activity and aid in disaster response. Nasa scientists used data from the satellite to produce this world map of cities at night.
The map above shows where on earth it is currently day time night time or twilight. The day and night world map shows the sun s current position and where it is night and day throughout the world at that point of time. Strong lights occur in a strand that includes washington dc philadelphia new jersey new york city and boston. The map shows day and night on earth and the positions of the sun subsolar point and the moon sublunar point right now.
Day and night world map. The brightest areas of the earth are the most urbanized but not necessarily the most populated compare western europe with china and india. World map of cities at night shown above in 2011 nasa launched the suomi national polar orbiting partnership satellite.