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  Image: Geographic Location Direction Photo #: ISS053-E-451778 Date: Dec. 2017
Geographic Region: ANDAMAN ISLANDS
Feature: PAN- ANDAMAN SEA, BANGKOK, THAILAND, GULF OF THAILAND, SIEM RIEP, HO CHI MINH AT NIGHT

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  Fishing in Green, Living in Yellow

This oblique photograph, taken by an astronaut from the International Space Station, shows the city of Bangkok illuminated by city lights. As the capital and largest city in Thailand, Bangkok is home to more than 9 million people.

The adjacent waters of the Andaman Sea and Gulf of Thailand are illuminated by hundreds of green lights on fishing boats. Fishermen use the lights to attract plankton and fish, the preferred diet of commercially important squid. As the bait swims to the surface, the squid follow to feed and get caught by fishermen. The same fishing practices are used off the Atlantic coast of South America.

In the photo, the border between Thailand and neighboring Cambodia to the east is distinguished by a marked difference in the number of city lights. Cambodia has less urbanized area and its population is smaller than that of neighboring countries. The majority of the Cambodin population lives in rural farming areas where electricity is sparse. Phnom Penh is the capital and largest city in Cambodia, with a population of approximately 1.5 million people.

 
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Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 331k
Mission: ISS053  
Roll - Frame: E - 451778
Geographical Name: ANDAMAN ISLANDS  
Features: PAN- ANDAMAN SEA, BANGKOK, THAILAND, GULF OF THAILAND, SIEM RIEP, HO CHI MINH AT NIGHT  
Center Lat x Lon: 12.0N x 95.5E
Film Exposure:   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 10
 
Camera: N8
 
Camera Tilt: 54   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 24  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: S   The direction from the nadir to the center point, N=North, S=South, E=East, W=West
Stereo?:   Y=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't
Orbit Number:  
 
Date: 20171210   YYYYMMDD
Time: 151407   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 16.9N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 96.8E  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 253   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 217   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: -59   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
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