"Earth At Night"

How would this look on the wall of your office, company's foyer
or the wall of a large room in your home?  Or, how about note cards?

For a number of years we have used this image in our Cultural Diversity presentations. Invariably someone would come up to me (Joel Freeman) during a break, asking where he or she could obtain a large copy of this image. I never knew where to point people...until now.

Finally we have good news. We have special access to the extremely high resolution photograph from the actual gentlemen in NASA who created this composite image. An important distinction!

This is what the Earth looks like at night. Can you find your favorite or city? Surprisingly, city lights make this task quite possible. Human-made light highlights particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe, the eastern United States, and Japan. Many large cities are located near rivers or oceans so that they can exchange goods cheaply by boat. Particularly dark areas include the central parts of South America, Africa, Asia and Australia. The above image is actually a composite of hundreds of pictures made by the orbiting DMSP satellite.

This image of Earth’s city lights was created with data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS). Originally designed to view clouds by moonlight, the OLS is also used to map the locations of permanent lights on the Earth’s surface.

The brightest areas of the Earth are the most urbanized, but not necessarily the most populated. (Compare western Europe with China and India.) Cities tend to grow along coastlines and transportation networks. Even without the underlying map, the outlines of many continents would still be visible. The United States interstate highway system appears as a lattice connecting the brighter dots of city centers. In Russia, the Trans-Siberian railroad is a thin line stretching from Moscow through the center of Asia to Vladivostok. The Nile River, from the Aswan Dam to the Mediterranean Sea, is another bright thread through an otherwise dark region.

We will deliver what has been promised with the "wall-art" size you request -- or all-occasion note cards (holiday, thank you, etc...) 

The production company we are working with will fabricate and ship a high quality "Wall-Art" image to almost any size. To make it easy for everyone, we have selected five sizes, from which you can choose (see below).  The larger the image, the more spectacular it is.

By the way, because we have access to the original high resolution image, we can make a "stupendously huge" image of this if you have a specialty project in mind. Please let us know what you're thinking and we'll respond accordingly.

The image you select will be fabricated by a production company that has done work for the  Smithsonian Institution and other similar organizations.

Smaller image size options are mentioned below. Please click on the appropriate "email hyperlink" and send an email (including your telephone number) for the specific size and mounting you want. S&H in the USA is INCLUDED in the pricing!

Please do not contact us if you want an inexpensive poster-like image. Mass production is not what we do. Your image will be one-at-a-time museum quality (with price to match), made individually for each order. Interested in learning more? Click below on the exact size and mounting option you want us to quote...