General Question Night lights on Earth

[sitha241]

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/news/earth-at-night.html

Found this on internet and I was wondering is there any planed improvement of that in orbiter?
And is this data public?

 

[statickid]

i can see my town!

 

[paddy2]

"Street lights" are THE only man made object on earth viewable from space.
(apart from pollution!)

 

[statickid]

well, i've heard you can tell if it is urban or natural.

excuse me... *i've read such information, not heard

 

[worir1]

I think that the night lights need improoving on orbiter. right now they look like the ISS dropped massive yellow paint bombs all over the world. Any one know a texture pack that improoves this?

 

[statickid]

there's the official high res lights that come with the level 11/14 texture, and then stuff like this:

[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=1160"]High Resolution Earth Night Lights version 2.0[/ame]

which is better? :shrugs: matter of taste i suppose.

Also if you turn down the night lights parameter in the orbiter video control panel if that helps. I wonder how relatively bright street lights are from space...??

I keep the celestial sphere at .1 light

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http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/CitiesAtNight/

this is a cool article about city lights from space with nice pictures. judging by the starlight in the picture of england, my guess is that the cities are fairly bright to the eye

 

[n122vu]

"Street lights" are THE only man made object on earth viewable from space.
(apart from pollution!)

The Great Wall of China is not amused.

Expedition 10 photo showing the Great Wall:

The visible wall theory was shaken after China's own astronaut, Yang Liwei, said he couldn’t see the historic structure. There was even talk about rewriting textbooks that espouse the theory, a formidable task in the Earth’s most populous nation.

The issue surfaced again after photos taken by Leroy Chiao from the International Space Station were determined to show small sections of the wall in Inner Mongolia about 200 miles north of Beijing.

Taken with a 180mm lens and a digital camera last Nov. 24, it was the first confirmed photo of the wall. A subsequent Chiao photo, taken Feb. 20 with a 400mm lens, may also show the wall.

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/workinginspace/great_wall.html


I think the night lights in Orbiter could use some work, but they're not really that bad in my opinion, until you get into the lower atmosphere.

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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/news/earth-at-night.html

Found this on internet and I was wondering is there any planed improvement of that in orbiter?
And is this data public?

Needs some background music...

 

[statickid]

There are MANY structures with the help of even simple optics like binoculars and telephoto lenses. with better optics you can see everything thats not behind a cloud

 

[paddy2]

Street lighting can be seen without viewing aids.....