BLUE BEAUTY
Photos by Astronaut Sunita Williams
SANDSTORM LEAVING NORTH AFRICA TOWARDS THE ATLANTIC – CANARY ISLAND.
GIBRALTAR STRAITS
NIGHT ARRIVES
BETWEEN EUROPE & AFRICA
SWISS ALPS
ICELAND
BLACK SEA
RED SEA
OUR PLANET IN THE MIDDLE OF THE UNIVERSE AT NIGHT
SPECTACULAR!
Satellite photo of Europe and Africa at night on a cloudless day.
Lights are already on in Paris, Barcelona but not in London, Lisbon or Madrid, where there is still daylight.
You can see the Azores in the middle of the ocean. A little below Madeira and further Canary Islands and Cape Verde.
You can observe the continent platforms from the British Isles to Canada and Iceland in the middle.
France
Iceland
Italy
Continental
Platform
England
ÁFRICA
Already night time here.
Spain
Atlantic
Ocean
Cabo Verde Island
Canary Islands
Islas de la Madera y Azores
Grande São Paulo
Rio de Janeiro
Belo Horizonte
Salvador
Atlantic Ocean
Brazilian Continental Platform.
NIGHTFALL IN BRAZIL
Grande São Paulo
Rio de Janeiro
Salvador
Recife
Fortaleza
Brasília
Goiânia
Uberlândia
Belo Horizonte
Florianópolis
NIGHTFALL IN USA
The biggest concentration of lights (from top to bottom) are the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington.
Miami
Houston
Dallas
Chicago
Still daylight in California.
Puerto Rico


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TRANSLATION TO ENGLISH AND EDITED MSW 2007
Isn’t this magic ?

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