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Ankara at Night

Bright shades of white and yellow light up the geographic and political heart of Turkey.


Astronaut photograph ISS062-E-112756 was acquired on March 25, 2020, with a Nikon D5 digital camera using a 190 millimeter lens and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by a member of the Expedition 62 crew. The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by Alex Stoken, Jacobs, JETS Contract at NASA-JSC.

Published June 28, 2020
Data acquired March 25, 2020

Source:
ISS > Digital Camera
Collections:
Astronaut Photography
Earth at Night