File:City Lights at Night along the France-Italy Border.JPG
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English: The brightly lit metropolitan areas of Torino (Italy), Lyon, and Marseille (both in France) stand out amidst numerous smaller urban areas in this dramatic astronaut photograph. The image captures the nighttime appearance of the France-Italy border. The southwestern end of the Alps Mountains separates the two countries. The island of Corsica is visible in the Ligurian Sea to the south (image top). The full moon reflects brightly on the water surface and also illuminates the tops of low patchy clouds over the border (image centre). This image was taken by an International Space Station (ISS) astronaut at approximately 11:55 p.m. local time, when the ISS was located over the France-Belgium border near Luxembourg. |
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| Source | NASA Earth Observatory |
| Author | NASA Expedition 23 crew |
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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: ISS023-E-29061. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing. Other languages:
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The astronaut observer was looking towards the south-east at an oblique viewing angle at the time the image was taken; in other words, looking outwards from the ISS, not straight down towards the Earth. Image acquired with a Nikon D3 digital camera, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.
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| current | 00:02, 22 May 2019 | 4,256 × 2,816 (8.87 MB) | SteinsplitterBot | Bot: Image rotated by 180° |
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