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Every light is a person who chose to act.

Real night imagery of the continent from NASA. Gold points are verified Uthando records. Zoom in and the ground turns to day at 30 metres. Where we have nothing yet, the Atlas says so.

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Key Case File or mission, confirmed location The institution City lights · NASA base layer, not Uthando data Fire seen by satellite, last 24 hours · NASA FIRMS

Night imagery: NASA Earth Observatory Black Marble 2016 (VIIRS). Ground by day: NASA Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS), Sentinel-2 passes of 21 and 6 September 2026, about 30 m per pixel; contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026. Fires: NASA FIRMS, VIIRS 375 m active fire detections from NOAA-20 for Africa over the last 24 hours, low-confidence detections left out; each point is a detection, not a separate fire. Coastlines: NASA GIBS. All NASA layers served by NASA GIBS. Fallback land: Natural Earth II, bundled with CesiumJS. Globe: CesiumJS (Apache 2.0). Prototype, 4 October 2026.

Fig. 1 · The Atlas, live. White light is NASA night imagery. Red is fire seen from orbit. Gold is verified Uthando data.