Night Earth free
The Night Earth map shows the lights that are visible at night on the surface of Earth. This allows:
• Observation of human-generated lights from space and light pollution caused
• Location of the spots with less light pollution, for better observation of the stars
• Real-time representation of the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis (Northern and Southern Lights), along the representation of where in the world is currently at day or night
• Real-time cloud coverage, to check where is it currently possible to observe the stars or the Aurora
• Night photography (only in the website, coming soon to the app)
The brightest areas of the Earth are the most urbanized, but not necessarily the most populated.
Two versions of the night images are available, captured by NASA in 2000 and 2012. These detailed maps account for 437.495 images in total, as described in the Night Earth website (http://www.nightearth.com).
Features:
• Watch the Earth at night from space
• Zoom in as much as you want so as to see more detail
• Search any location, or tell the application to focus on your current location
• Switch to the day images and compare between the day and night images
• Compare the night images captured in 2000 and 2012
• Labelled night map, to better identify countries and cities
• Track in real time in which parts of the world is day or night
• Real-time visualisation of the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis (Northern Lights and Southern Lights)
• Cloud coverage
• Support for devices running Android 2.3 onwards and Android TV
• Visualisation of pictures uploaded to nightearth.com
• (new) 3D view and VR support
• Additional features are coming soon
Cities tend to grow along coastlines and transportation networks. The United States interstate highway system appears as a lattice connecting the brighter dots of city centers. In Russia, the Trans-Siberian railroad is a thin line stretching from Moscow through the center of Asia to Vladivostok. The Nile River, from the Aswan Dam to the Mediterranean Sea, is another bright thread through an otherwise dark region.
Some regions remain thinly populated and unlit. Antarctica is entirely dark. The interior jungles of Africa and South America are mostly dark. Deserts in Africa, Arabia, Australia, Mongolia, and the United States are poorly lit as well (except along the coast and rivers), along with the boreal forests of Canada and Russia, and the great mountains of the Himalaya.
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This is the free version of the application. For the version with no ads, you can refer to our separate "Night Earth" app (http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dreamcoder.nightearth). Thanks for the support.
Love Night Earth?Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NightEarthFollow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/nightearthcomAccess the Night Earth website for sharing your own night pictures: http://www.nightearth.com
If you like the app, please leave positive feedback. Otherwise, please tell us why and how can we improve it ([email protected]). Thanks.
Category : Maps & Navigation
Reviews (28)
As are all apps GPS dependent, this one is Data dependent, why?***********† in diwali we go round the city,to see the degree of illumination, similarly it is our right to remain aware of the luminance of the planet; this is a Futuristic & future Development Index Map of EARTH, irrespective of political smartness
I love the game i would've rated it a 5 if you could zoom in city's and show you the city lights Tbh
The app is ok.But for so much lacking and ad issue,I'm giving 3star.Please remove the issues to use the app smoothly.
i liked it but I wish I could see the city in better detail.
this App do not show perfect places in night
I like the map with beautiful lights
great for estimating population density
This is very good app
It's ok it
Useless app
Shame..It looks like it would be a great app to have but it's very slow and non-responsive. Uninstalling and will try later.
Give object reference error when I try to locate, no menu when clicking plus button
Work's for me. Brilliant
In time perhaps we can see better detail close up, like they have in normal daytime satellite pics? Not sure if this is possible. Thank you anyway, appreciate the work!
Says loading map forever. Tried leaving everything.
Great app, wonderful graphical photographs of how the night looks like from all angles. I just love it.
It would be nice if I could have an option to disable names of countries and towns, and see only borders. IT WORKED FOR ME, THANKS FOR EXPLANATION ☺
Thanks for fixing. Now it works :)
It would be better if the streets were visable (ie, semi transparent overlay)
Can't wait to see how the dev will expand on this
This app crashed the first time I opened it. I was hoping for something in real-time, but I guess technology hasn't advanced to that level yet. Thought I'd give it a try but instead i just uninstalled it. No point messing with it further.
This app is great but its UI is very bad and slow. Please update it with a new cool ui.
its good for what it is ,It would be nice to zoom in closer,cant complane for free
Nice idea. Isn't in real time. Buttons don't work. Lots of ads.
The north Korea look pitch black. That is the one strange country
Lets see...... if it is amazing
Old version
This is a neat app, I do prefer this light pollution app to some of the others. The data seems to be a more realistic mapping of light pollution. If you don't want any Ads, then you can upgrade to remove the Adds for only 99p, this is more than worth it, so I've paid for the full version without adverts. Paying 99p is worth all the work this developer as done on this app, so, Developer,... Thank You.