Earth from Space - Image Description

STS068-232-022 Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. October 1994
With Lake Erie in sunglint, the Detroit metropolitan area is discernible in this south-southeast-looking, low-oblique photograph. The Saint Clair River empties into Lake Saint Clair east-northeast of the city. The Detroit River drains Lake Saint Clair, flows past Detroit (west bank) and Windsor, Ontario, Canada (east bank), and empties into Lake Erie. Detroit is one of the world's major producers of automobiles and automobile parts and products.

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