Satellite images of Earth show roads, air traffic, cities at night and internet cables

Telegraph ^ | 10/24/2011 | Telegraph

[Dallas59]

Air traffic routes are shown between North America and Europe. Felix Pharand-Deschenes has created global snapshots depicting how power lines, roads and even air traffic corridors have come to dominate the surface of Earth. His visualisations based on real data show air traffic routes, the underwater cables that carry the internet, road and rail networks and electricity transmission lines all superimposed over cities at night.

[gleeaikin]

A portrait of modern earth.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks gleeaikin. Another “extra, extra” ping to the APoD listmembers.

[blam]

Useless, I can't see my house.(ahem)

[West Texas Chuck]

It’s FULL OF STARS.

[Vince Ferrer]

[Domestic Church]

Oh what a tangled web we weave!

[miele man]

Wow, this pix of South Korea as compared with NoKo is stunning.

[Happy Rain]

Moscow looks like a big glaring spider in the middle of a continent size electric web.
Black IT out and you wreck most of Eastern Europe and all of Northern Asia.

These images certainly have military value.

[pfflier]

The second picture shows the best example of how the vote would go if the electoral college was to be abolished.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

ping

[Pan_Yan]

Moscow looks like a big glaring spider in the middle of a continent size electric web.

That was the thing that stood out to me as well.

[doorgunner69]

Ah, good. We continue to fly below radar coverage out her on our tocks in the middle of the Pacific. No one knows we are here, certainly not worth a satellite photo that reveals everyone else!

[dfwgator]

North Korea is Al Gore’s Wet Dream

[txhurl]

I thought the Nile lit up like that was something to ponder.

[doorgunner69]

The Ruskies have an enormous territory to keep tabs on. The immensity of it is boggling..........All the time the Chicoms are down there, plotting at all that unexploited area....

[Pan_Yan]

I didn’t notice the Nile the first time. Thanks for pointing it out. Very interesting.

[txhurl]

You ‘spose its all the rice farmers keeping each other abreast of tides every 20 feet or so on the superb wi-fi infrastructure?

[Daffynition]

Beautiful.