Our Home from Space at Night

This image of the United States at night is a composite of data taken by the VIIRS instrument aboard the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012.

Pretty cool, isn't it? Learn more directly from the NASA site: HERE

Wired.com published a nice series of these photos HERE which show more areas of the planet at night.

So, where would you rather be living: in the midst of bright lights or in the relative darkness?

As for me, I'm glad I'm in one of the "dimmer" areas, not dark just dimmer.