Very pretty. Aren't we lucky it wasn't cloudy that day? :-)

Anyone up for a bit of identification of which hemisphere we're looking at? I'm making the assumption that Rosetta is in the same orbital plane to the Sun that we are, and North is roughly up...

Somalia, Cameroon and Gabon appear to be burning the midnight oil, with a vengence, but the whole of South Africa is tucked up in bed.

You can sort of figure out and identify the various light spots around the region (Italy, Nile delta, Israel, Indian subcontinent, Hong Kong/Shenzhen, Taiwan, Shanghai, Korea + Japan) but what the heck is all that light from the North Pole?!? It can't be sunlight, as we can see a sliver of the South Pole, so therefore what we can see of the NP must be in darkness...

Are there some sort of military installations, or even alien installations!, in the NP that we don't know about? 'Cause I thought that the Northern Lights were quiet dim...

That is a beautiful image.

Thank you Lucy.

. . .I was expecting a Pink Floyd reference there - Dark Side something or other.

It's the aurora. It is dim, but it's big and foreshortened.

I would be nicer to turn all the bloody lights off at night so Billions of people can look up at the wonders of the night sky rather that leaving them all on so one spacecraft can take a nice picture.

I reckon I can see the figure of Jesus in the light effects. Quick, put the planet on eBay before someone else does.

I would be nicer to turn all the bloody lights off at night so Billions of people can look up at the wonders of the night sky rather that leaving them all on so one spacecraft can take a nice picture.

As soon as I saw this, I immediately thought of Pink Floyd as well. "If the band you're in starts playing a different tune, I'll see you on the dark side of the ... Earth."