Interesting and Useful Facts About Solo Travel in the United States

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Solo travel is an exciting way to explore the world on your terms. The United States is a top destination for solo travelers. It offers a mix of vibrant cities, breathtaking landscapes, and unique cultural experiences. 

More people are choosing to travel alone than ever before. According to an AMEX survey, 76% of Millennials and Gen-Z travelers are planning solo trips this year, reports Forbes. This growing trend reflects the freedom and flexibility that come with exploring alone. 

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Can I Use Simple Green to Clean My Pool Cartridge Filter?

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The next step in ensuring clean, fresh water is keeping your pool clean and the filtration system on point. If you own a pool, you might have wondered whether using household cleaning products like Simple Green to clean your pool cartridge filters is safe. So you own a robot pool cleaner like the Beatbot AquaSense Beatbot AquaSense 2 Pro and wonder if adding Simple Green to your pool robot filter cleaning helps. In this blog, we will answer that and explain how you can effectively care for your filter and pool cleaner.

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TUTORIAL: Learn how to enable NASA city lights visualization in Google Earth Pro

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Here you will learn how to “return” to the night lights view at night in Google Earth Pro.

Why did Google remove night viewing from its program?

A few years ago, in one of its updates, Google removed the image galleries that were already being accessed very little by users of the Google Earth Pro program. One of them was from NASA, with historical images from the agency, and most notably, one that showed the night sky, with the city lights. This was a very interesting feature, as it could show planet Earth at night.

Although this layer is no longer available in the program, NASA itself provides a page just for nighttime viewing, which is NASA Worldview. You can access it at this link.

But if you want to return to this old layer of night views in Google Earth Pro, below, I’ll teach you how to “reactivate” this function.

KML file of night illuminations visualization

NASA itself makes a KML file available for download that displays the city lights and to download it, click this link and download it.

When downloading, double-click the file and instantly, Google Earth Pro will open and automatically apply to the program.

The result is more than cool, and see what the visualization looks like.

NOTE: Once applied, uncheck the last Still Image option (2048×1024), as it reduces the image quality applied to the entire globe.