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City Lights Illuminate the Nile
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NASA image acquired October 13, 2012 The Nile River Valley and Delta comprise less than 5 percent of Egypt’s land area, but provide a home to roughly 97 percent of the country’s population. Nothing makes the location of human population clearer than the lights illuminating the valley and delta at night. On October 13, 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured this nighttime view of the Nile River Valley and Delta.
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Credit lineCity Lights Illuminate the Nile. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001616.
