File:City Lights at Night along the France-Italy Border.JPG

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Description	English: The brightly lit metropolitan areas of Torino (Italy), Lyon, and Marseille (both in France) stand out amidst numerous smaller urban areas in this dramatic astronaut photograph. The image captures the nighttime appearance of the France-Italy border. The southwestern end of the Alps Mountains separates the two countries. The island of Corsica is visible in the Ligurian Sea to the south (image top). The full moon reflects brightly on the water surface and also illuminates the tops of low patchy clouds over the border (image centre). This image was taken by an International Space Station (ISS) astronaut at approximately 11:55 p.m. local time, when the ISS was located over the France-Belgium border near Luxembourg.
Date	31 May 2010
Source	NASA Earth Observatory
Author	NASA Expedition 23 crew

Camera location	44° 30′ 00″ N, 5° 29′ 59.9″ E	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	44.500000; 5.499972

This image or video was catalogued by Johnson Space Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: ISS023-E-29061.

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العربية ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ български ∙ català ∙ čeština ∙ dansk ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ فارسی ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ magyar ∙ հայերեն ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Nederlands ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ +/−

The astronaut observer was looking towards the south-east at an oblique viewing angle at the time the image was taken; in other words, looking outwards from the ISS, not straight down towards the Earth. Image acquired with a Nikon D3 digital camera, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	08:02, 22 May 2019		4,256 × 2,816 (8.87 MB)	SteinsplitterBot	Bot: Image rotated by 180°
	11:13, 31 May 2010		4,256 × 2,821 (7.84 MB)	Originalwana	{{Information \|Description={{en\|1=The brightly lit metropolitan areas of Torino (Italy), Lyon, and Marseille (both in France) stand out amidst numerous smaller urban areas in this dramatic astronaut pho

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Date metadata was last modified	06:29, 29 April 2010
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File:City Lights at Night along the France-Italy Border.JPG

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significant event

Expedition 23

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public domain

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31 May 2010

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44°30'0.000"N, 5°29'59.899"E

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Nikon D3

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ISS023-E-29061

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0.07692307692307692307 second

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6,400

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