NASA recently released Earth at Night, a global view of the planet at night, with city lights, oilfield flares, night time fishing fleets, and auroras.
Google has created a wonderful viewer for this data, which can be found at its Earth at Night 2012 site.
Earth at Night zoomed out to show the entire planetNortheast United StatesMontana, where night skies are always blackNetherlands, Belgium, and northern France, where you would be lucky to see Jupiter on a cloudless nightKorean Peninsula. Note the lights from fishing fleets off the coast of South Korea. Note also how dark North Korea is.
GeoChristian 