Argentina After Dark
Channel: NASAEarthObservatory
Date: 2017-08-01

When viewed from a satellite in daylight, the landscape of central Argentina shows barely a sign of human settlement. But by night, the place could be mistaken for a game of luminescent connect-the-dots. Rows of bright, evenly spaced points of light puncture the darkness. The nighttime lights betray the presence of towns.

Producer: Pola Lem

Data: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens; Suomi NPP VIIRS data courtesy of Miguel Román, NASA GSFC; MODIS data courtesy of the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) and Google Earth Engine.

Based on the May 23, 2017, Image of the Day: https://go.nasa.gov/2vqi1zP

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