WTF, NASA?

[reynardo]

Who has seen the image of the Earth from space, at night? The latest edition is here.

Here's a clipping I've just made, of Australia.



Click on it or here for the really weird bit.

Here's the bigger picture.

There's no-one in the centre of Australia. That is - there's almost no-one. According to Wikipedia, almost 75% of all Australians live in the cities or coastal areas.

That ain't the big lit-up bit on the left.

NASA are claiming it's wildfires, but here's a look at the area or somewhere similar:



You'd have a lot of trouble getting that lot to stay alight, let alone to show the sort of light that's in the photo.

So...

Did NASA make a boo boo of epic proportions (to us, anyway), or is that where the secret Boat People camps are, or is it a US Military secret like 100 Pine Gaps except bigger?

Comments

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid that makes no sense - look at the scenery, There really isn't enough scrub to give that much light unless you also enhanced every pic to exaggerate the fire light. Even the Black Saturday fires, with 100m high flames in thick scrub, didn't give that much light.