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Bucharest, Romania—the nation's capital lit at night
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iss073e1047246 (Nov. 2, 2025) --- Bucharest, Romania—the nation's capital with a metropolitan population of about 1.78 million—transitions from older, amber-hued sodium-vapor lights in its city center to modern, white cooler LED lighting in its outskirts and suburbs. This photograph was taken from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above Eastern Europe at approximately 11:15 p.m. local time.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineBucharest, Romania—the nation's capital lit at night. NASA/JSC, 2025-11-02. Public domain. ID: iss073e1047246.
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