Northwestern_Europe_at_Night.JPG
Summary
Description Northwestern Europe at Night.JPG |
English:
Several of the oldest
cities
of north-western Europe are highlighted in this astronaut photograph from just after
midnight
(00:25 Greenwich Mean Time) on August 10, 2011. While the
landscape
is dotted with clusters of lights from individual urban areas, the metropolitan areas of
London
,
Paris
,
Brussels
, and
Amsterdam
stand out due to their large
light
“
footprints
.” The metropolitan area of
Milan
is also visible at image upper right. This photograph from the
International Space Station
(ISS) was taken with a short
camera
lens, providing the large field of view. To give a sense of scale, the centers of the London and Paris metropolitan areas are approximately 340 kilometres from each other. The image is also oblique—taken looking outwards at an angle from the ISS, which tends to foreshorten the image—making the distance between Paris and Milan (640 kilometres) appear less than that of Paris to London.
In contrast to the land surface defined by the city lights, the
English Channel
presents a uniform dark appearance. Similarly, the
Alps
near Milan are also largely devoid of lights. While much of the
atmosphere
was clear at the time the image was taken, the lights of Brussels are dimmed by thin
cloud
cover.
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Date | |
Source | NASA Earth Observatory |
Author | ISS Expedition 28 crew |
Camera location | 49° 00′ 00″ N, 1° 30′ 00″ E | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 49.000000; 1.500000 |
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This image or video was catalogued by Johnson Space Center of the United States
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) under
Photo ID:
ISS028-E-24360
.
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Image acquired with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 28 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.
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Alps
Milan
Brussels
Amsterdam
Paris
English Channel
London