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Beautifully Eerie Photos Of Earth As A "Black Marble"

Composite photos from a NASA satellite show nighttime lights scattered across the inky black orb we call home. Released today, and photographed between April and October of 2012, this pictorial version of Earth has been dubbed the “Black Marble.”

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    • LegendOfBacon 5 months ago

      Time to take off the tinfoil hats, people. What possible reason could NASA have to manufacture some sort of conspiracy about wildfires in Australia? (I know, silly question, of course it’s part of the global warming hoax!) Back to reality now… the video is a composite, created from multiple passes over any given area. Do you really think half the country was on fire on one particular night?

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    • BecD 5 months ago

      Photoshopped.
      There is nothing in the middle of the Western Australian desert, it is completely uninhabited. Unless our new alien overlords have set up camp there.

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      Apparently they’re wildfires.

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      I love that you can see the outline of the Nile!

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    • smg7320 5 months ago

      Is that a hurricane in the first picture, off the east coast? Is that Sandy?

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