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DescriptionSoutheast Texas at night 2012.png	English: From: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/news/earth-at-night.html This image of the continental United States at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. The image was made possible by the satellite's "day-night band" of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as city lights, gas flares, auroras, wildfires and reflected moonlight. Annotations added by User:Beland following information from: http://geology.com/articles/oil-fields-from-space/ Eagle Ford Shale flares, western end Eagle Ford Shale flares, eastern end San Antonio, Texas Austin, Texas Houston, Texas Laredo, Texas
Date	29 January 2015
Source	http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/712129main_8247975848_88635d38a1_o.jpg
Author	NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC

Horizontal resolution	28.35 dpc
Vertical resolution	28.35 dpc
File change date and time	19:37, 29 January 2015

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