It is a picture of the Korean peninsula (North and South) at night. It's a time-lapse image, compiling pictures taken over the course of time to present the concentration of city lights at night.You can see nearly the entire country of S Korea is is shinning bright, while N Korea is almost entirely blacked out. Communism.
"City lights at night are a fairly reliable indicator of where people live. But this isn’t always the case, and the Korean Peninsula shows why. As of July 2012, South Korea’s population was estimated at roughly 49 million people, and North Korea’s population was estimated at about half that number. But where South Korea is gleaming with city lights, North Korea has hardly any lights at all—just a faint glimmer around Pyongyang."
What is that exactly a picture of? Btw, Love the art work with your kids!
ReplyDeleteIt is a picture of the Korean peninsula (North and South) at night. It's a time-lapse image, compiling pictures taken over the course of time to present the concentration of city lights at night.You can see nearly the entire country of S Korea is is shinning bright, while N Korea is almost entirely blacked out. Communism.
Delete"City lights at night are a fairly reliable indicator of where people live. But this isn’t always the case, and the Korean Peninsula shows why. As of July 2012, South Korea’s population was estimated at roughly 49 million people, and North Korea’s population was estimated at about half that number. But where South Korea is gleaming with city lights, North Korea has hardly any lights at all—just a faint glimmer around Pyongyang."
http://earthsky.org/earth/view-from-space-north-korea-and-south-korea