Earth at night

alikhan · 10 Dec 2012

whs said:

Most lights seem to be in northern India and in Belgium - they illuminate all highways at night. Not sure what's going on in northern India. Mabe they have low electricity rates.

I guess for India , the picture must have been taken during diwali which is also called the festival of light . Also there is one more thing to note that northern India has the population of around 500 million and majority of them lives in rural areas .
Since northern India has high density therefore it appears to scattered and not concentrated in small areas like in cities.
This is what i think or maybe this is the theory which comes close to proving it .

ICIT2LOL · 12 Dec 2012

Hum I am surprised the lights are not more through Iran as I remember flying to the UK and passing over it was a like a birthday cake with hundreds of oil wells flaring not to mention the lights as well.