{"id":5681,"date":"2008-04-29T11:26:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-11T13:09:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:18","slug":"tour-of-world-cities-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/tour-of-world-cities-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour of World Cities at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAstronauts have accumulated a database of 400 photos of the world&#8217;s cities at night taken from the space station. A small <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Study\/CitiesAtNight\/\">gallery<\/a> and account of this effort reveals some interesting views. The pictures were shot from a make-shift adjustable camera holder that compensates for the rapid movement of the space station to produce sharp, clear portraits. These new images are a magnitude clearer than the oft-seen mosaic picture of the world at night. The camera tracker was cobbled from extra parts &#8220;found&#8221; in the space station. Cities on different continents have distinctive identifying signatures at night due to the local type of lighting, and the cities&#8217; cultural origins.&#160; The brightest spot on our planet at night today is the strip at Las Vegas.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/200804291125.jpg\" height=\"350\" width=\"350\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"200804291125\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Las Vegas strip, Feb. 4, 2008 with a 400 mm lens.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/ISS016-E-16189_mecca.jpg\" height=\"247\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Iss016-E-16189 Mecca\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>The cities of Jiddah and Mecca, Saudi Arabia, are connected by a well-lit pilgrim road.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/eol.jsc.nasa.gov\/cities\/CitiesAtNightWorldTour720X480edit7.mpg\">tour <\/a>of world cities at night is well worth watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronauts have accumulated a database of 400 photos of the world&#8217;s cities at night taken from the space station. A small gallery and account of this effort reveals some interesting views. The pictures were shot from a make-shift adjustable camera &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/tour-of-world-cities-at-night\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}