“Cities at night may be one of the most beautiful consequences of humanity”
Between 2002 and 2008, astronaut Don Pettit and his colleagues on the International Space Station took more than 4,000 extraordinary photographic images of the world’s great cities at night. Pettit narrates this amazing video orbital tour of the world starting with the city of Zurich, Switzerland. Who knew that Japanese cities have a signature blue glow when viewed from space, or that Hong Kong looks like a dragon from above.
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