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Blackout Leaves American Cities in the Dark

A power outage left many major American cities in the dark on August 14, 2003. The blackout was apparent from the perspective of space in this pair of DMSP satellite images.


Image courtesy Chris Elvidge, U.S. Air Force

Published August 17, 2003
Data acquired August 15, 2003

Source:
DMSP