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Gaza at Night Since October 2023
Mean night-time light over the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, nW/cm²/sr, monthly
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Source: NASA Black Marble VNP46A3 (LAADS DAAC), monthly moonlight- and atmosphere-corrected night-time radiance from VIIRS on Suomi NPP. Palanor calculation: the area-weighted mean over each place's land, built by NASA from clear, snow-free nights, with pixels that had none filled with their latest good value; only light at or above 2 nW/cm²/sr counts, which leaves out a faint background glow in recent years. Boundaries: Natural Earth. The Gaza Strip is about 340 km² of land on Natural Earth's line, under 2,000 pixels.
The Gaza Strip's lights from space: steady before October 2023, then a collapse as power was cut and fuel ran out, with the West Bank alongside.
What this chart reads
- Night Lights: Gaza Strip (NASA Black Marble, monthly)as “Gaza Strip”latest 2026-09-01
- Night Lights: West Bank (NASA Black Marble, monthly)as “West Bank”latest 2026-09-01
Sources
Night Lights: Gaza Strip (NASA Black Marble, monthly). Source: NASA Black Marble VNP46A3, collection 2 (VIIRS/NPP Lunar BRDF-Adjusted Nighttime Lights Monthly L3 Global 15 arc-second, doi:10.5067/VIIRS/VNP46A3.002), from NASA's LAADS DAAC. NASA Earth science data have no restrictions on use or redistribution (CC0). Boundaries: Natural Earth 10m (public domain). Palanor calculation; NASA does not endorse it. Refreshed from a GitHub Actions job that reads only the radiance, quality and land layers and stores no imagery.
Night Lights: West Bank (NASA Black Marble, monthly). Source: NASA Black Marble VNP46A3, collection 2 (VIIRS/NPP Lunar BRDF-Adjusted Nighttime Lights Monthly L3 Global 15 arc-second, doi:10.5067/VIIRS/VNP46A3.002), from NASA's LAADS DAAC. NASA Earth science data have no restrictions on use or redistribution (CC0). Boundaries: Natural Earth 10m (public domain). Palanor calculation; NASA does not endorse it. Refreshed from a GitHub Actions job that reads only the radiance, quality and land layers and stores no imagery.
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