I believe the darker and lighter areas are usually known as "night" and "day"
I'm seeing continental outlines on the live stream right now.
Oh yeah? Really? Interestingly enough, there is no live feed right now, so you can't be seeing any outlines even if they were visible! By the way, if you ever really see continental outlines in the HD live stream, please prove it by taking a screenshot. I have been watching it forever, and it is always the same clouds and blueness. Additionally, it looks very different than the link posted by OP, supposedly showing the same Earth. Also the Sun is not bright enough at all, they must be using a filter, right?
You obviously never clicked on the link provided by OP, and you never read what I said in the first place.
I said this "The Earth should be uniformly lit by the Sun
on the day side, and what we see is some brighter and darker areas."