Earth from Space - Image Description

Chicago by day. The population of the city of Chicago, IL is roughly 3 million people, but metropolitan Chicago includes nearly 10 million. This image stretches from East Chicago and Gary IND (bottom left) to Kenosha IL (right). The contrast between the gray urban region comprising metropolitan Chicago and the surrounding coastal plain is relatively unimpressive.

This service is provided by the International Space Station program and the JSC Earth Science & Remote Sensing Unit, ARES Division, Exploration Integration Science Directorate.