I didn’t realize Belgium and Netherlands were so densely populated.
We have street lights on every highway and almost every public road.
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.
It’s interesting to see the distinction between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
What do the colors mean??
I’m surprised by the light between Great Britain and Norway. Are these wind farms or oil rigs? Or stranded ships?
North Sea secret island
It’ll be mostly oil rigs with a few fishing boats and supply ships I think.
Wind farms are much closer to the coast.
Industry mostly.
I wonder what the red/orange lights signify. For example, in Ireland. And the blue.
Damn how do we need so much lights?
The contrast with north Africa is astounding.
Is there a distinct difference between the two images or is it “just another image”?
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)
