Photo #: ISS053-E-50422 Date: Sep. 2017 Geographic Region: ISRAEL Feature: PAN-LEVANT, NILE DELTA, S. TURKEY AT NIGHT |
Night Lights of Levant This photograph, taken from the International Space Station (ISS), shows the sweep of the coastline of the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The cluster of lights at image center includes the major population centers of the Levant. The brightest lights are the cities of Tel Aviv in Israel, Amman in Jordan, and Beirut in Lebanon. Other light clusters include the Nile Delta in Egypt, and a nearby thin string of lights revealing the Suez Canal. The more scattered lights of the Turkish coastline and the country's mountainous interior arc from top left to top center. Populations are small in the deserts of the Middle East, so few lights appear in vast portions of Saudi Arabia (right), Syria (top center) and Iraq (top right). The largest population centers cluster where water is available, especially along the great rivers of the region, the Tigris and Euphrates. In Iraq, the capital city Baghdad stands as the brightest spot where these rivers meet. Images such as this also show the hints of conflict. In Syria, darkness now reigns along a 300-kilometer stretch where lights use to line the Euphrates River in the east of the country. This has left most of eastern Syria in the dark. |
Images: | All Available Images Low-Resolution 167k |
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Mission: | ISS053 |
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Roll - Frame: | E - 50422 |
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Geographical Name: | ISRAEL |
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Features: | PAN-LEVANT, NILE DELTA, S. TURKEY AT NIGHT |
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Center Lat x Lon: | 32.0N x 35.0E |
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Film Exposure: | N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus |
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Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: | 0 |
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Camera:: | N6 |
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Camera Tilt: | HO | LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical |
Camera Focal Length: | 24 |
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Nadir to Photo Center Direction: | NE | 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 |
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Orbit Number: | |
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Date: | 20170928 | YYYYMMDD |
Time: | 001011 | GMT HHMMSS |
Nadir Lat: | 28.4N |
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Nadir Lon: | 31.0E |
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Sun Azimuth: | 59 | Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point |
Space Craft Altitude: | 218 | nautical miles |
Sun Elevation: | -47 | Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point |
Land Views: | |
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Water Views: | CANAL, DELTA, RIVER, SEA |
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Atmosphere Views: | |
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Man Made Views: | |
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City Views: | AMMAN, BAGHDAD, BEIRUT, SUEZ, TEL AVIV |
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Photo is not associated with any sequences |
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