Blue Beauty. Photos by Astronaut Sunita Williams

SANDSTORM LEAVING NORTH AFRICA TOWARDS THE ATLANTIC – CANARY ISLAND.

GIBRALTAR STRAITS

NIGHT ARRIVES BETWEEN EUROPE & AFRICA

SWISS ALPS

ICELAND

BLACK SEA

RED SEA

OUR PLANET IN THE MIDDLE OF THE UNIVERSE AT NIGHT
OUR PLANET IN THE MIDDLE OF THE UNIVERSE AT NIGHT

SPECTACULAR!
Satellite photo of Europe and Africa at night on a cloudless day.
Lights are already on in Paris, Barcelona but not in London, Lisbon or Madrid, where there is still daylight.
You can see the Azores in the middle of the ocean. A little below Madeira and further Canary Islands and Cape Verde.
You can observe the continent platforms from the British Isles to Canada and Iceland in the middle.

France
Iceland
Italy
Continental
Platform
England
ÁFRICA
Already night time here.
Spain
Atlantic
Ocean
Cabo Verde Island
Canary Islands
Islas de la Madera y Azores

Grande São Paulo
Rio de Janeiro
Belo Horizonte
Salvador
Atlantic Ocean
Brazilian Continental Platform.
NIGHTFALL IN BRAZIL

Grande São Paulo
Rio de Janeiro
Salvador
Recife
Fortaleza
Brasília
Goiânia
Uberlândia
Belo Horizonte
Florianópolis

NIGHTFALL IN USA

The biggest concentration of lights (from top to bottom) are the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington.
Miami
Houston
Dallas
Chicago
Still daylight in California.
Puerto Rico