Southern Italian Peninsula at Night

City lights trace the outline of Italy's “boot” and the island of Sicily.

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Astronaut photograph ISS028-E-8604 was acquired on June 11, 2011, with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 35 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 28 crew. The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast. Lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by William L. Stefanov, Jacobs/ESCG at NASA-JSC.

Published July 4, 2011
Data acquired June 11, 2011

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ISS > Digital Camera

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Astronaut Photography