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NASA Needs Help Mapping the Earth's Night Life
How well do you think you know your own city? Could you recognize it in the dead of night... from space? NASA is hoping to use a wealth of images of Earth taken from the International Space Station to measure light pollution and energy consumption across the globe, and is asking for the help of the world's citizens.
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