But the coast of north korea is difficult to detect.
Satellite view of north korea and south korea at night.
The nighttime view shows south.
Space station this year captured a fresh view of the korean peninsula at night.
Satellite images shed new light on the secretive state.
On september 24 2012 the visible infrared imaging radiometer suite viirs on the suomi npp satellite captured this nighttime view of the korean peninsula.
These differences are illustrated in per capita power consumption in the two countries with south korea at 10 162 kilowatt hours and north korea at 739 kilowatt hours.
This image of north and south korea viewed on the night of september 24 2012 by the suomi npp satellite is from nasa s earth observatory which wrote.
It s not a problem that our country goes dark at night.
Coastlines are often very apparent in night imagery as shown by south korea s eastern shoreline.
City lights at night are a fairly.
To the smaller towns in south.
Picture is often used as a demonstration of the problems in the country but north korea says that the essence of society.
If any image can tell the story of north and south korea in one frame it s this shot taken by an astronaut aboard the international space station in january 2014.
This imagery is from the viirs day night band which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe signals such as city lights gas.
North korea the dark area and south korea are seen at night in this nasa photograph from the international space station.