Flying over East Asia, astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) took this night image
of the Korean Peninsula.
Unlike daylight images, city lights at night
illustrate dramatically the relative economic importance of cities, as gauged
by relative size. In this north-looking view, it is immediately obvious that
greater Seoul is a major city and that the port
of Gunsan is minor by
comparison. There are 25.6 million people in the Seoul metropolitan area—more
than half of
South Korea’s citizens—while Gunsan’s population is 280,000.
North Korea is
almost completely dark compared to neighboring South Korea and China. The
darkened land appears
as if it were a patch of water joining the Yellow Sea to
the Sea of Japan. Its capital city, Pyongyang, appears like a small
island,
despite a population of 3.26 million (as of 2008). The light emission from
Pyongyang is equivalent to the
smaller towns in South Korea.
Coastlines are
often very apparent in night imagery, as shown by South Korea’s eastern
shoreline. But the coast of
North Korea is difficult to detect. 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.
Astronaut
photograph ISS038-E-38300
was acquired on January 30, 2014, with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a
24
millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility
and the Earth Science and Remote
Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image
was taken by the Expedition 38
crew. It has been cropped and
enhanced to improve contrast, and lens
artifacts have been removed. The International
Space Station Program
supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab
to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of
the greatest value to
scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the
Internet.
Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at
the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut
Photography of
Earth. Caption by M. Justin Wilkinson, Jacobs at NASA-JSC.
(위의 사진과 비슷한 사진들을 이미 많이 보셨겠지만, 이사진은 비교적 근래 (2014년 1월 30일)에 찍은은 사진으로
NASA Earth Observatory 에 posting 된 사진이기에 올립니다. 낳한과 북한의 전력 소모량이 1인 당 즉
per capita 10,162 kw 대 739 kw 이니, 상당히 비교가 됩니다. 우리나라가 마치 섬나라 같이 보입니다 ! )
첫댓글 사진을 보는 순간...... 이럴수가!!!!!
얼마나 주민들을 사랑했으면 밤에 잠 잘 자라고 온 나라의 불을 다 껐을까?
눈물이 나려고 하네.
장군님도 이제 그만 불 끄고 아이나 더 만드시지.
많은것을 생각하게 합니다.
남한이 마치 대륙에서 떨어져 나온 섬나라 같아 보이는군.
그래도 피양(?)은 반딧불 궁뎅이만큼 반짝...ㅋㅋㅋ
북은 육지가 침강하여 바다속으로 침몰된 땅 덩어리 같습니다.
저런것을 추종하는 대한민국내부의 종북집단들의 사고가 황폐화 되어있씀을 .....
민주당이나 종북들은 권력을 찬탈하면 영구 집권을 하고싶어 선거란 제도를 없애 버리고 싶겠지요
집단적 미친넘들 입니다.
불쌍한 이북동포들 지도자 잘못 만나면 이렇군요 흠~ Sea of Japan..
이 사진도 언론을 리드해서 뒤늦게 중앙일보에 ..............ㅉㅉㅉ
북쪽에 띄엄띄엄 보이는 불빛 몇개는 다른나라의 조명등과는 달리 소위 불세출의 명장, 인류의 태양 김씨 부자가 한 밤중에 스스로 뿜어내는.... 發狂하는 - 發光이 아님, 빛이랍니다. 미친 짓 3대.