The Radisson New World Hotel (aka "The UFO Building") on Nanjing Xi Lu.
By: ryry9379
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Bratislava at sunset
Beautiful view of Bratislava from the weapon museum in the old center.
You can see the UFO, the church, and one of the main cities in the center of Bratislava.
By: Fernando Martín
Europe at Night (NASA, International Space Station, 08/10/11) [Explored]
Editor’s note: I’ve added this to our "NASA Views Earth at Night" Flickr photoset: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157625188331491/ AND…we are humbled and honored by the Explore ranking. THANK YOU!
This night time view of northwestern Europe is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 28 crew member on the International Space Station. Several of the oldest cities of northwestern Europe are highlighted in this photograph taken at 00:25:26 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). While the landscape is dotted with numerous clusters of lights from individual urban areas, the metropolitan areas of London (United Kingdom), Paris (France), Brussels (Belgium) and Amsterdam (Netherlands) stand out due to their large light "footprints". The metropolitan area of Milan, Italy is also visible at lower left. This photograph was taken with a short camera lens, providing the large field of view recorded in the image. To give a sense of scale, the centers of the London and Paris metropolitan areas are approximately 340 kilometers distant from each other. The image is also oblique, or taken while looking outward at an angle from the station; this tends to foreshorten the image, making the distance between Paris and Milan (approximately 640 kilometers) appear less than that of Paris to London. In contrast to the land surface defined by the city lights, the English Channel at right presents a uniform dark appearance. Similarly, the Alps (bottom center) to the north of Milan are also largely devoid of lights. While much of the atmosphere was clear at the time the image was taken, the lights of the Brussels metropolitan area are dimmed by thin cloud cover.
Image credit: NASA
Original image:
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-28/html/…
More about space station research:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html
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Milan, Italy at Night (NASA, International Space Station, 02/22/11)
The metropolitan area of Milan (or Milano) illuminates the Italian region of Lombardy in a pattern evocative of a patchwork quilt. The city of Milan forms a dense cluster of lights in this astronaut photograph, with brilliant white lights indicating the historic center of the city where the Duomo di Milano (Milan Cathedral) is located. Large dark regions to the south (image left) contain mostly agricultural fields. To the north, numerous smaller cities are interspersed with agricultural fields, giving way to forested areas as one approaches the Italian Alps (not shown). Low, patchy clouds diffuse the city lights, producing isolated regions that appear blurred. The Milan urban area is located within the Po Valley, a large plain bordered by the Adriatic Sea to the south and the Italian Alps to the north. Milan has the largest metropolitan area in Italy, and the fifth largest in the European Union. It is one of Europe’s major transportation, industrial, and commercial hubs, and is also a global center of fashion and culture. It is considered an “alpha” world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.
Image credit: NASA
Original image/caption:
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=49625
More about space station research:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html
There’s a Flickr group about Space Station Research. Please feel welcome to join! www.flickr.com/groups/stationscience/