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Border between Pakistan and India at night

auteur: Nasa/Novapix

référence: t-aspak-00002

Image Size 300 DPI: 41 * 27 cm

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this nighttime panorama while looking north across Pakistan’s Indus River valley. The port city of Karachi is the bright cluster of lights facing the Arabian Sea, which appears completely black. City lights and the dark color of dense agriculture closely track with the great curves of the Indus valley. For scale, the distance from Karachi to the foothills of the Himalaya Mountains is 1,160 kilometers (720 miles). This photograph shows one of the few places on Earth where an international boundary can be seen at night. The winding border between Pakistan and India is lit by security lights that have a distinct orange tone. Image taken on September 23, 2015.

Keywords for this photo:

2015 - ASIA - ATMOSPHERE - BORDER - CITY - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - EXPEDITION 45 - HORIZON - INDIA - INDUS - LIGHT - LIGHT POLLUTION - LIMB - NIGHT - PAKISTAN -