Stunning pictures of Earth at night time unveiled by NASA's newly launched satellite

San Francisco: Twinkling city lights, raging wildfires and colorful auroras are lit up in new dazzling nighttime views of the Earth. The new images released on Wednesday are courtesy of a newly launched NASA-NOAA satellite that's equipped with a sensor to observe the planet at night.

There's the Nile River bathed in city lights. A map of the United States shows the populated East Coast illuminated. Light from fishing boats can be pinpointed. The satellite also captured the glow from natural sources including moonlight, northern lights and naturally-occurring fires.

After Superstorm Sandy made landfall in late October, hard-hit New Jersey, lower Manhattan and the Rockaways appeared dark in the satellite images compared with surrounding areas - the result of widespread power outages.

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  NASA has released new images of the Earth at night, composed from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite over nine days in April 2012 and thirteen days in October 2012. We have zoomed on to the high resolution images to show how prominent Indian cities look at night when seen from space.

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  Delhi and the National Capital Region

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  Mumbai and Pune

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  Kolkata

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  Chennai

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  Bangalore

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  Hyderabad

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  Ahmedabad and Vadodara

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The satellite also captured the glow from natural sources including moonlight, northern lights and naturally-occurring fires.

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