Awesome 2016 Earth at night pics from NASA showing areas with (electric) light usage

Fascinating to see night pics of the earth with lit parts reflecting higher level of electric lighting usage, one presumes, and which is viewed by some as an index of (material) development. Thank you NASA for your awesome work and your sharing of such stuff with the public.

Given below are pics - links to high-resolution pics followed by low-resolution copies put up on this post - from the NASA article reference below (and a following article). These pics are of the earth at night in 2016.

Full-hemisphere pics of all continents:
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/blackmarble2016-continents.jpg.



Above pic shown in slightly larger resolution as 3 separate pics:







Flat pic of earth: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/blackmarble2016-1500px_0.jpg.




Here's the full article: New Full-hemisphere Views of Earth at Night, https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/new-full-hemisphere-views-of-earth-at-night, dated April 12th 2017.

[I thank NASA and have presumed that they will not have any objections to me sharing the above pics from their website on this post which is freely viewable by all, and does not have any financial profit motive whatsoever.]

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