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Looking for a dark place away from light pollution, check out this Space
Station
picture from NASA at link below. Al Freeman

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In a message dated 8/30/01 6:28:57 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
bdavis66@juno.com writes:


http://antwrp.gsfc.nasadot gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg



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Bruce & Norma Davis
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To: "Bruce W Davis" <bdavis66@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 00:23:46 -0400
Subject: Fw: Earth at night
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Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 10:22 PM
Subject: Fw: Earth at night


>
> I don't take responsibility for the words, but the picture's pretty
neat!
>
> JD
>
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> >
> >
> > EARTH AT NIGHT
> >             ****************
> >    Check the link below...This is really a sight to behold!
> > >  Enjoy it - we're paying for it!
> > >
> > >   The image is a panoramic view of the world from the new space
> > station.
> > >   You can scroll East-West and North-South (left and right and up
and
> > >  down).
> > >
> > >  Canada's population is almost exclusively along the U.S. border.
> > >  Moving east to Europe, there is a high population concentration
along
> > >   the Mediterranean Coast.
> > >   It's easy  to spot London, Paris, Stockholm and Vienna.
> > >
> > >   Check out the development of Israel compared to
> > >   the rest of the Arab countries.
> > >   Note the Nile River and the rest of the "Dark Continent".
> > >   After the Nile the lights don't come on again till Joberg.
> > >   Look at the Australian Outback and the Trans-Siberian Rail Route.
> > >
> > >   Moving east, the most striking is the difference between North
and
> > South
> > >   Korea.
> > >
> > >   What a piece of photography.
> > >   It is an absolutely awesome picture of the Earth taken from
> > >   the Boeing built Space Station.
> > >
> > >  <A
> > >

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