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San Francisco Bay Area at Night As Seen From Orbit

By Keith Cowing
October 19, 2013
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San Francisco Bay Area at Night As Seen From Orbit
San Francisco Bay Area at Night
NASA

One of the Expedition 37 crew members aboard the International Space Station took this night photograph on Sept. 25 featuring the northern California region including San Francisco and San Francisco Bay on the west coast, San Jose to the southeast, Modesto and Stockton near the Sierra Nevada to the east, and Oakland to the northeast. Several other cities and communities can be delineated, as well.
ISS037-E-002604 (25 Sept. 2013) — high res (3.3 M) low res (91 K)

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