London by Night

This nighttime view of the British capital offers unique insight into the city’s urban density and infrastructure as highlighted by electrical lighting. Interpreting the brightest areas as the most populated, the population density drops off rapidly from the bright urban center until it reaches the vicinity of the Orbital, an encircling roadway.

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Astronaut photograph ISS006-E-22939 was taken with digital camera and is provided by the Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory at Johnson Space Center. Higher resolution images and other views taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA-JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.

Published February 23, 2003
Data acquired February 4, 2003

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Astronaut Photography