BLUE BEAUTY BLUE BEAUTY

LEAVING NORTH AFRICA TOWARDS THE ATLANTIC – CANARY ISLANDS.

SANDSTORM

STRAITS OF GIBRALTAR

Terminator - Europe and Northern Africa. Nightfall over Central Europe, still daylight over UK, Western Sahara and Atlantic.

SWISS ALPS

ICELAND

BLACK SEA

RED SEA

NIGHT ON OUR PLANET

SPECTACULAR!

Satellite photo of nightfall over Europe and North Africa on a cloudless day. The terminator (line btween night and day) is clearly visible along Western Europe and the western extremity of North Africa.

Lights are already on in Paris and Barcelona but not in London, Lisbon or Madrid, where it is still daylight.

You can see the Azores in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. A little below is Madeira and further below the Canary Islands and Cape Verde.

You can observe the continental shelves from the British Isles to Canada and Iceland in the middle.

France

Iceland

Italy

Continental Continental

ShelfShelfEngland

ÁFRICA

Already night time here.

Spain

Atlantic

Ocean

Cabo Verde Island

Canary IslandsCanary Islands

Islas de la Madera y Azores

Grande São Paulo

Rio de Janeiro

Belo Horizonte

Salvador

Atlantic Ocean

Brazilian Continental Shelf.

NIGHTFALL IN BRAZIL

Grande São Paulo

Rio de Janeiro

Salvador

Recife

Fortaleza

Brasília

Goiânia

UberlândiaBelo Horizonte

Florianópolis

NIGHTFALL IN USA

The biggest concentration of lights (from top to bottom) are the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington.

MiamiHouston

Dallas

Chicago

Still daylight in California.

Puerto Rico

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TRANSLATION TO ENGLISH AND EDITED MSW 2007

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