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Undated NASA composite image shows a fully dark (city lights) full disk image centered on the North Pole. Researchers from some 60 countries will try to better understand the Earth's poles in 2007 and the effect of climate change as part of the first "International Polar Year" since the 1950s, for parody use ONLY. Originally:, AFP/NASA-HO/File, Copyright © 2007 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.