Photo #: ISS016-E-27586 Date: Feb. 2008 Geographic Region: JAPAN Feature: TOKYO-YOKOHAMA AREA AT NIGHT |
Tokyo at Night In the daytime, humanity's footprints on Earth are visible in numerous ways, even from space: the geometric patterns of our croplands, lush golf courses springing up from the desert like manmade oases, decades of river flow captured in reservoirs behind massive dams. When the Sun goes down, however, only one kind of footprint remains visible: our cities. Images of city lights at night taken by astronauts are among the most interesting visual reminders of how humans have transformed Earth's surface. This nighttime photograph of Tokyo, Japan, was taken by International Space Station astronaut Dan Tani on February 5, 2008. The heart of the city is brightest, with ribbons of lights radiating outward from the center along streets and railways. The regularly spaced bright spots along one of the ribbons heading almost due west out of the downtown area are probably train stations along a public transit route. The lights of Tokyo are a cooler blue-green color than many other world cities. The color results from the more widespread use of mercury vapor lighting as opposed to sodium vapor lighting, which produces an orange-yellow light. |
Images: | All Available Images Low-Resolution 280k |
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Mission: | ISS016 |
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Roll - Frame: | E - 27586 |
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Geographical Name: | JAPAN |
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Features: | TOKYO-YOKOHAMA AREA AT NIGHT |
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Center Lat x Lon: | 35.5N x 140.0E |
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Film Exposure: | N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus |
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Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: | 10 |
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Camera:: | N2 |
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Camera Tilt: | 18 | LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical |
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Nadir to Photo Center Direction: | E | The direction from the nadir to the center point, N=North, S=South, E=East, W=West |
Stereo?: | Y=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't |
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Orbit Number: | 760 |
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Date: | 20080205 | YYYYMMDD |
Time: | 140827 | GMT HHMMSS |
Nadir Lat: | 35.2N |
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Nadir Lon: | 139.1E |
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Sun Azimuth: | 327 | Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point |
Space Craft Altitude: | 180 | nautical miles |
Sun Elevation: | -68 | Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point |
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Water Views: | BAY |
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Atmosphere Views: | |
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Man Made Views: | URBAN AREA |
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City Views: | TOKYO |
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