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From Whatsapp’s Diwali wishes to festive videos and status, with Diwali, comes a whole lot of social media bulk content that effortlessly takes over the internet every year during the festival. Among all that, there is this one particular image that has been resurfacing every year on almost every Indian’s phone with a number of explanations. Yes, we are talking about the famous Diwali-lit India's ‘satellite image’, which many say was taken by the ‘space agency NASA’. However, to everyone's surprise, the image has nothing to do with Diwali and this man shared the same picture along with an entire explanation debunking the same. 

According to the post, the image was indeed shared by NASA, but it instead showed the ‘temporal composite of REAL night lights’. As soon as the said post surfaced online, it went viral and gained all kinds of reactions from the netizens. 

The image was shared on the social media site X (formerly Twitter), by the handle ‘rajbhagatt’. The post was captured, “Let me clarify once again on this usual forwarded message of NASA #satellite picture of India during #Diwali. The actual image composite is NOT fake, Interpretation is wrong - I.e. it is not Deepavali night and has nothing to do with it. So what is it? It is a temporal composite of REAL night lights images taken from satellites.”

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The post went viral as people gave all kinds of reactions to the popular picture. Most people thanked the man for clearing the long-spread rumours about the image, while some enquired more about it to further confirm the information that the man shared. The post was shared on the day of Diwali and received 195K views from people. 

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Taking to the comment section, people shared their say. “Interestingly, you can estimate GDP at both national and sub-district levels from such images,” a user said. “No. This is likely to be from DMSP,” added another. “Thanks for this analysis! You are the real light this Diwali & as they say- lights will guide you home,” added a third person. “What's that near Mumbai? In the sea? Bombay High?” asked a fourth netizen. “Intense population density and lighting in the Punjab and all along the Indus and its tributaries,” added a fifth person. “Excellent service by way of clarification. Thanks,” added a sixth user. “I was wondering how is this possible, because I saw it, thanks for the detailed analysis,” said a seventh. 

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