| ISS006 Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Photographic Highlights |
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| London by Night: This nighttime view of the British capital
offers unique insight into the city’s urban density and
infrastructure as highlighted by electrical lighting. Interpreting
the brightest areas as the most populated, the population density
drops off rapidly from the bright urban center until it reaches the
vicinity of the Orbital, an encircling roadway. Beyond lie isolated
bright areas marking the numerous smaller cities and towns of the
region and as far southeast as Hastings on the coast. Note London’s
two major airports, Heathrow and Gatwick, and the particularly
bright, sinuous stretch of the Orbital to the south of the
city. The crew of the International Space Station acquired this image shortly after 7:22 p.m. local time on the evening of February 4, 2003. Either thin, low clouds or perhaps fog is evident in the fuzzy character of patterns for some of the surrounding smaller cities while that of the warmer urban center is still clear and sharp. |
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This service is provided by the International Space Station program and the JSC Astromaterials Research & Exploration Science Directorate. Recommended Citation: Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center. "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth." . |
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