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India-Pakistan Border at Night
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India-Pakistan Border at Night

NASA / GSFC · 2017-12-08 · photograph (digital archive)

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An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this nighttime panorama while looking north across Pakistan’s Indus River valley. The port city of Karachi is the bright cluster of lights facing the Arabian Sea, which appears completely black. City lights and the dark color of dense agriculture closely track with the great curves of the Indus valley. For scale, the distance from Karachi to the foothills of the Himalaya Mountains is 1,160 kilometers (720 miles).

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Credit lineIndia-Pakistan Border at Night. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000586.

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