NASA's haunting images [3] of the earth at night have been purloined by Google [4]. You can now explore the beautiful footage from the Suomi NPP satellite.

Don't, however, expect to be able to pinpoint the exact lamp-post outside your window, you know, the one that keeps you awake all night and which acts as a homing beacon for all the leaky neighborhood dogs. The imaging isn't quite that hi-res enough, I'm afraid.