Satellite View Of North Korea And South Korea At Night
This image of north and south korea viewed on the night of september 24 2012 by the suomi npp satellite is from nasa s earth observatory which wrote.
Satellite view of north korea and south korea at night. To the smaller towns in south. North korea by night. North korea the dark area and south korea are seen at night in this nasa photograph from the international space station. It s not a problem that our country goes dark at night.
On september 24 2012 the visible infrared imaging radiometer suite viirs on the suomi npp satellite captured this nighttime view of the korean peninsula. Space station this year captured a fresh view of the korean peninsula at night. Satellite images shed new light on the secretive state. Coastlines are often very apparent in night imagery as shown by south korea s eastern shoreline.
The nighttime view shows south. Picture is often used as a demonstration of the problems in the country but north korea says that the essence of society. If any image can tell the story of north and south korea in one frame it s this shot taken by an astronaut aboard the international space station in january 2014. But the coast of north korea is difficult to detect.
These differences are illustrated in per capita power consumption in the two countries with south korea at 10 162 kilowatt hours and north korea at 739 kilowatt hours. But where south korea is gleaming with city lights north korea has hardly any lights at all just a faint glimmer around pyongyang.