I was looking around for this week’s post, when this picture from the NASA website caught my attention. The article was even more interesting, and it’s so relevant to what we usually discuss in class that I had to post it. I’m not sure this qualifies for an article, but since this is a blog about pretty much anything related to Africa, I’m going to give it a shot.
The shiny area in the picture is the Nile River. The picture was taken by NASA at night, to show (through night lights) where population was concentrated in the region. I thought it was incredible to see how people are found mostly around the Nile, even though we’ve discussed this so many times in class. This is still because most of Egypt’s population depends on the Nile to grow their crops (even though they have irrigation systems) and so life away from it would be much harder. Remember that the Nile spreads farther south into other countries as well, and that the same thing happens there. Cairo (Egypt) is the brightest part of the “long-stemmed flower”. Seeing a picture of it makes it a little more real.
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ReplyDeleteThis is an awesome picture. If you look at it closely you can see a formation of a pentagon where the lights are more closer together. Plus atmosphere is visible during the nighttime, which is pretty cool as well. Here's a link to a picture that shows urban growth in Cairo in 1965 and 1998.
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This is fantastic! Thanks for finding this amazing image and thanks, Will, for yours, too.
ReplyDeleteThis is incredible! There are more photos of the whole world at night available and it is amazing to see how beautiful this earth can look!
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