The Netherlands have this special place called Westland also known as the Glass City. It's where they grow all of their tulips or whatever in greenhouses. The entire area is filled with back to back greenhouses that blast huge amounts of lights down to make the flowers and fruits and so forth grow all of the time. It's actually clearly visible from space, being super bright in an already very densely populated country.
They seem to be oversaturated colours of the lights, no? Probably the red is sodium lights (about ~2500K colour temperature), yellow is what we look at as the more modern while led light...blue...idk, does Ukraine/Moldova/Hungary use 6500K streetlights?
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bleistift2@sopuli.xyz · 21 pts · 138d
I’m surprised by the light between Great Britain and Norway. Are these wind farms or oil rigs? Or stranded ships?
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 138d
It'll be mostly oil rigs with a few fishing boats and supply ships I think.
Wind farms are much closer to the coast.
Babalugats@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 138d
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/light-pollution-sea-ocean-new-maps#%3A%7E%3Atext=Offshore+oil+and+gas+rigs+and+wind%2C%28dark+blue%29+to+30+meters+%28yellow%29+deep.
Industry mostly.
I wonder what the red/orange lights signify. For example, in Ireland. And the blue.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 138d
North Sea secret island
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 138d
Where is Epstein island, actually?
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 138d
I didn't realize Belgium and Netherlands were so densely populated.
Thorry@feddit.org · 9 pts · 138d
The Netherlands have this special place called Westland also known as the Glass City. It's where they grow all of their tulips or whatever in greenhouses. The entire area is filled with back to back greenhouses that blast huge amounts of lights down to make the flowers and fruits and so forth grow all of the time. It's actually clearly visible from space, being super bright in an already very densely populated country.
CoolCat@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 138d
We have street lights on every highway and almost every public road.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 11 pts · 138d
FUsername@feddit.org · 3 pts · 138d
Is there a distinct difference between the two images or is it "just another image"?
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 138d
Just another image :/ (with only slightly more pixels)
Here is more MBs:
https://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2025/12/europe_at_night_from_space/27044305-1-eng-GB/Europe_at_night_from_space.png
And a comparison between 2017 & 2022:
comparison between 2017 and 2022
(Via: esa.int/Europe_at_night_from_space)
And a bunch of neat pics over at wiki/Category:Europe_at_night_seen_from_space.
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(Europe, North Africa and Western Asia at night by VIIRS, 13,500 × 13,500 pixels)
RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 138d
What do the colors mean??
Gsus4@mander.xyz · 11 pts · 138d
They seem to be oversaturated colours of the lights, no? Probably the red is sodium lights (about ~2500K colour temperature), yellow is what we look at as the more modern while led light...blue...idk, does Ukraine/Moldova/Hungary use 6500K streetlights?
bassad@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 137d
Damn how do we need so much lights?
The contrast with north Africa is astounding.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 138d
It’s interesting to see the distinction between Ireland and Northern Ireland.