Blue Marble was initially created by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the night lights by NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center.
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- night lights (read a newsbit about them and this site as published in Science Magazine)
- Blue Marble picture (at NASA, incl. downloads)
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