Cities At Night and So Much More!!

Earth Observatory Cities at Night; The View From Space

In many cities, neighborhoods of different generations can be distinguished by the lighting color and patterns along their streets. In many North American cities, older neighborhoods have less regular street patterns and light green mercury vapor lighting, while newer cities, especially in the western United States, have street patterns aligned to the compass directions and use orange sodium vapor lighting. The major Denver street patterns are rectilinear, aligned north-south and east-west.
"Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center." The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth

This is a great website that I found tonight, Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. I looked up the Kherson area and it was amazing to see exactly how the Dniper River bends and turns and finally empties into the Black Sea. I looked up Colorado, of course, and could almost see where my parents live. These are amazing photos, taken from space.

From the website: "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth hosts the best and most complete online collection of astronaut photographs of the Earth.

Beginning with the Mercury missions in the early 1960s, astronauts have taken photographs of the Earth. Our database tracks the locations, supporting data, and digital images for these photographs. We process images coming down from the International Space Station on a daily basis and add them to the 765,425 views of the Earth already made accessible on our website. These images include 320,801 from the International Space Station. These numbers were determined 7/1/2008. See database content summary for more details."

Check it out!