World Light Map At Night. NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens using Suomi NPP VIIRS data from Miguel Román NASAs Goddard Space. Sun Calculator Moon Calculator Moon Phases Night Sky Meteor Showers Day and Night Map Moon Light Map Eclipses Live Streams Seasons Home Sun Moon Day and Night World Map The map shows day and night on Earth and the positions of the Sun subsolar point and the Moon sublunar point right now.
The Night Earth map shows the lights that are visible at night on the surface of Earth. 8 MB jpg 266 MB jpg. It is one of the most interesting world maps ever made.
The thick yellow line shows where sunset and sunrise are currently occurring.
Last month NASA released two global maps of the Earth at nightone taken in 2016 the other a revised version of a 2012 mapThe satellite images showed our planet twinkling under the night sky. The bright swaths of pink in Syria shows the impact of the ongoing civil war. The map above shows where on Earth it is currently day time night time or twilight. The light pollution map has two base layers road and hybrid Bing maps VIIRSWorld AtlasCloudsAurora overlays and a point feature overlay SQM SQC and Observatories.
