2010.54.16252

Earth at Night
1985
23.25 in HIGH x 35.25 in WIDE
(59.05 cm HIGH x 89.53 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.16252

"Credits: United States Air Force/DMSP Archives, National Snow & Ice Data Center, NOAA, University of Colorado/text & image (c) 1985 W.T. Sullivan, Ill, University of Washington, Seattle / poster design & image processing by Kerry Meyer/poster (c) 1986 Hansen Planetarium, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A." in white at the bottom right.

Laminated poster has a black printed background. At the top is a black map of the world, with landmasses identified by clusters of light, with Aurora borealis visbile in green at the top left. At the bottom left of the map is "Earth at / Night" in green. At the bottom left corner of the poster is a section of white text about city lights and fires, and the lessons the poster can teach. Across the bottom are continents, with lines extending from the clusters of lights to numbers, which are associated with lists identifying each city, printed in white.
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