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Sparkling PHOTOS of cities from the night sky
Last updated on: November 2, 2011 08:27 IST
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Clusters of yellow lights on the Indo-Gangetic Plain reveal numerous cities large and small in this astronaut photograph of northern India and northern Pakistan.
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Of the hundreds of clusters, the largest are the capital cities of Islamabad, Pakistan, and New Delhi, India. (For scale, these metropolitan areas are approximately 700 kilometers or 435 miles apart.) The lines of major highways connecting the cities also stand out. More subtle, but still visible at night, are the general outlines of the towering and partly cloud-covered Himalayas to the north (image left).
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Of the hundreds of clusters, the largest are the capital cities of Islamabad, Pakistan, and New Delhi, India. (For scale, these metropolitan areas are approximately 700 kilometers or 435 miles apart.) The lines of major highways connecting the cities also stand out. More subtle, but still visible at night, are the general outlines of the towering and partly cloud-covered Himalayas to the north (image left).
This image was taken with a 16 mm lens, which provides the wide field of view, as the International Space Station was tracking towards the southeast across India. The ISS crew took the image as part of a continuous series of frames, each with a one-second exposure time to maximise light collection. Unfortunately, this also causes blurring of some ground features.
Click on NEXT to see more PHOTOS...Photographs: Courtesy NASA
Click on NEXT to see more PHOTOS...Photographs: Courtesy NASA
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