File:Houston, Texas at Night.JPG
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English: The image depicts the roughly 100 kilometre east-west extent of the Houston metropolitan area. Houston proper is at image centre, indicated by a “bull’s-eye” of elliptical white to orange-lighted beltways and brightly lit white free-ways radiating outwards from the central down-town area. Suburban and primarily residential urban land uses are indicated by both reddish-brown and grey-green lighted regions that reflect a higher proportion of tree cover and lower light density. Petroleum refineries along the Houston Ship Channel are identified by densely lit areas of golden yellow light. Rural and undeveloped land rings the metropolitan area, and Galveston Bay to the south-east (image lower right) provides access to the Gulf of Mexico. Both types of non-urban surface appear dark in the image. |
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| Author | Image taken by the NASA Expedition 22 crew. |
Image acquired with a Nikon D3X digital camera fitted with an 800mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.
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