Space station this year captured a fresh view of the korean peninsula at night.
Satellite view of north korea and south korea at night.
North korea the dark area and south korea are seen at night in this nasa photograph from the international space station.
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.
Satellite images shed new light on the secretive state.
This imagery is from the viirs day night band which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe signals such as city lights gas.
City lights at night are a fairly.
But the coast of north korea is difficult to detect.
Coastlines are often very apparent in night imagery as shown by south korea s eastern shoreline.
Picture is often used as a demonstration of the problems in the country but north korea says that the essence of society.
North korea by night.
The nighttime view shows south.
If any image can tell the story of north and south korea in one frame it s this shot taken by an astronaut aboard the international space station in january 2014.
This image of north and south korea viewed on the night of september 24 2012 by the suomi npp satellite is from nasa s earth observatory which wrote.
It s not a problem that our country goes dark at night.
To the smaller towns in south.