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File:KoreaAtNight20121205 NASA.png

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English: An image showing the Korean peninsula at night in the year 2012. A composite image, constructed using cloud-free night images taken by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite. These photographs were taken with the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), and the composite was published by NASA on December 5, 2012. I modified the image by removing the lights from ships on the open ocean to highlight the contrast between North Korea and South Korea.
Date 8 December 2012, 09:01:11
Source http://eoimages2.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/79000/79796/korea_vir_2012268_lrg.jpg
Author NASA

Original from http://eoimages2.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/79000/79796/korea_vir_2012268_lrg.jpg

Note: North Korea turns off street lighting late evening, so if this photo was taken at around midnight local time, it might not indicate electricity generating capacity in a balanced way.

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Image title
  • IDL TIFF file
Horizontal resolution 39.37 dpc
Vertical resolution 39.37 dpc
Software used
  • Adobe Photoshop CS4 Macintosh
File change date and time 09:55, 5 December 2012
Date and time of digitizing
  • 12:46, 20 November 2012

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