North Korea At Night From Space
The koreas at night january 30 2014 jpeg flying over east asia astronauts on the international space station iss took this night image of the korean peninsula.
North korea at night from space. A photo taken from space and showing a pitch black north korea next to a brightly lit south korea is one of the most famous images of the country. While flying over east asia the astronauts snapped a picture of north and south korea at night and the darkness that envelops the hermit kingdom truly stands out. 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.
Images of the region taken at night by nasa astronauts aboard the. North korean labor camps 9. This is the extraordinary image of north korea.
Kim jong un runs one of the world s most secretive societies so secret that despite it covering 47 000 sq miles you can t even see it from space. The darkness shown in north korea is due to mandatory power cuts that the country imposes at night in order to conserve dwindling electricity resources according to atlantic magazine s city lab. Unlike daylight images city lights at night illustrate dramatically the relative economic importance of cities as gauged by relative size.
The nighttime view shows south. This photo was taken by an astronaut aboard the international space station iss as it flew over the korean peninsula on january 30 2014. Since the mid 1990s when fuel stopped flowing from the defunct soviet union to north.