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“Some scientists have characterized such illumination as light pollution .”
“Night is defined by the absence of sunlight, yet the map revealed a nocturnal world that was not entirely dark.”
“It took satellite 312 orbits and 2.5 terabytes of data to get a clear shot of every parcel of Earth’s land surface and islands.”
“More satellites were deployed between 2019 and mid-2024 than in the previous sixty years combined.”
“Ground-based artificial illumination since the late nineteenth century had already altered nightscapes.”
“The history of Mexico’s observatory suggests how night and associated darkness have changed.”
“They didn’t anticipate what has occurred since.”
“Data for this map was acquired over 9 days in April 2012 and 13 days in October 2012.”
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“It doesn’t include any space debris, also called “space junk”—or the one million additional satellites SpaceX alone hopes to deploy.”
“What does it mean, I wondered, to observe and visualize Earth only by day, given that daytime is half of the planet’s time and place?”
“The hypervisibility of nocturnal illumination made by people undermines this assumption.”