<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Took me a little while to figure this out.<div><br></div><div>It isn't a bug and it isnt empty. If you look to the RHS of Melbourne there is a similar cloud of lights in the ocean. These are the oil rigs. I have zoomed into them here.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Compare with this map</div><div><a href="http://119.63.205.89/~baird/images/stories/WorkBoatWorld/2009-04/bassstraitfields.gif">http://119.63.205.89/~baird/images/stories/WorkBoatWorld/2009-04/bassstraitfields.gif</a><br><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div>My guess is that they have added some processing to enhance the lights or contribution of rural areas.</div><div><br></div><div>The expanse of lights you observed in WA probably relates to the lights in some of the mining areas and towns. Can anybody confirm this?</div><div><br></div><div><img id="2a8f386a-63af-45ec-b093-180b7c795d4e" height="370" width="640" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:4ED21C32-FF24-47A7-9AE0-705782EE6B7C@keysboroughsc.vic.edu.au"></div><div><br></div><div>Regards Roland</div><div><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><b>Roland Gesthuizen</b> | eLearning Leader <br>Keysborough College DEECD<br><a href="http://about.me/rgesthuizen">http://about.me/rgesthuizen</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead</div></div></div>
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<br><div><div>On 13/12/2012, at 11:49 AM, Colin Sutton <<a href="mailto:oz.sutton@gmail.com">oz.sutton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font><font face="times new roman,serif">Hi all</font></font><div><font><font face="times new roman,serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font face="times new roman,serif">I originally saw this on the Diigo Ed list (but no mention of this issue), but stumbled across it again on the ABC site:</font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="times new roman,serif"><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-12/explore-nasas-black-marble-earth-at-night/4423768">http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-12/explore-nasas-black-marble-earth-at-night/4423768</a></font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="times new roman,serif">(</font></font><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;line-height:20px">Explore the Earth at night using this interactive version of new high-resolution satellite imagery from NASA.)</span></div>
<div><font><font face="times new roman,serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font face="times new roman,serif">Zoom in on the west of Australia and look at all the lights!</font></font></div><div><font><font face="times new roman,serif">Tick off the City Lights 2012 box and there's NOTHING there (we all know that!)</font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="times new roman,serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font face="times new roman,serif">Any explanation for ALL those lights? Is it a data error (seems unlikely and not obvious in other continents that you expect to be "empty"). Mining??</font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="times new roman,serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font face="times new roman,serif">It's nearly the last week so we ALL have LOTS of time to ponder this!</font></font></div><div><font><font face="times new roman,serif"><br clear="all">
</font></font><div><div dir="ltr">Regards<br><br>COLIN SUTTON</div></div><div dir="ltr">St Helena SC Term 4 contract</div><br>
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