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File:ISS-42 Texas and the Gulf Coast at night.jpg

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English: Texas and the Gulf Coast at night as seen by the International Space Stations Earth observation cameras.
  • This wide-angle, nighttime image was taken by astronauts looking out southeastward over the Gulf of Mexico. Lower center left shows the twin lights of San Antonio Texas with a short string of lights to Austin (further left). Houston, the home of the Johnson Space Center is the brightest directly above (Center left). The large scattered arc of lights extending up and left from the lower center towards a point midway between San Antonio and Houston is defined by the natural gas flares from oil and gas extraction activity. Moonlight reflects diffusely off the waters of the gulf (image center left) making the largest but diffused illuminated area in the image.
  • The sharp edge of light patterns of coastal cities trace out the long curve of the gulf shoreline—from New Orleans at the mouth of the Mississippi River, to Houston (both image left), to Brownsville (image center) in the westernmost gulf. City lights at great distances in Florida (image top left) and on Mexico's Yucatán peninsula (image center right) suggest the full extent of the gulf basin, more than 930 miles, from Brownsville to Florida.
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This image or video was catalogued by Johnson Space Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: ISS042-E-241898.

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