Earth at Night. This is what the Earth looks like at night. Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas, including the seaboards of Europe, the eastern United States, and Japan. Particularly dark areas include the central parts of America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The image is a composite of hundreds of pictures made by the orbiting DMSP satellites (NASA Media Archives). Buy this as a superb wall poster, a canvas print or a framed print.