Cities at night seen from space! (21 pics)

Pictures / 7 Aug 2009 / views: 11014

The pics were taken by NASA astronauts from the International Space Station. At first, the pics were not interesting because all of them were blurred, but techniques and devices evolved over the years and now, you can have beautiful clear photos.
One interesting thing is that Tokyo seen by night is rather green while other cities are more orange/yellow. In fact, the majority of the urban area in Tokyo has light green mercury vapour lamps instead of orange sodium vapour lamps.

London and the south coast of England

Houston, Texas

El Paso, Texas; and Juarez, Mexico

Montreal, Canada

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Las Vegas, Nevada

Antwerp, Belgium

Chicago, Illinois

Tokyo Bay, Japan

Madrid, Spain

Athens, Greece

Cairo, Egypt

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Abu Dhabi, UAE

Tel Aviv (left) and Jerusalem, Israel

Seoul, South Korea

Hong Kong, China

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles and San Diego, California

Phoenix, Arizona

Miami, Florida

[via telegraph.co.uk]

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And another thing you can see on these pics is that american cities are neatly squared but the european cities are showing some kind of growth from the center. Its very interesting to see n_smile