Africa is not so dark after all

[James]

Africa is not so dark after all

Visualisations of satellite images of Earth and other data show Internet cables, roads, air traffic, and cities at night

 

[Cyrokrypto]

That is awesome! Love it.

 

[Leyzer]

Wow it looks so pretty

 

[MOnk]

All those phat pipes off the west coast!!!!

 

[Fenix_ZA]

Wow, that's awesome!! Wonder what's that thick section way north on Africa?

 

[anon815]

sjo gauteng is bright there

 

[James]

Wow, that's awesome!! Wonder what's that thick section way north on Africa?

The Nile?

/10 chars

 

[Ghost29]

I find the vast areas of complete darkness more fascinating than the amount of areas that are lit up.

 

[Achtung!Baby]

That's cool, the very bright cities looks like they're Joburg, Durban, PE and Cape Town.

 

[czc]

Kimberley needs to work on some industry to balance that map out

 

[Cicero]

That's cool, the very bright cities looks like they're Joburg, Durban, PE and Cape Town.

Yeah, but JHB dwarfs everything, amazing.

Great pic!

 

[cRashed]

awesome pic,very cool.

 

[fayainz]

Another really detailed interactive map can be found at http://www.submarinecablemap.com/

 

[halos]

look at how much brighter Europe is . oooh shiny

 

[CrouxL]

eish, all dese peple that can afford e-electricity!!! so dark here where i live.

 

[bradbear117]

The Nile?

/10 chars

ya,pretty sure it looks like the Nile. The river banks must be really built up.