Part I: High-Res Images of Cities at Night (from ISS)

City lights broadcast our existence into the night of space. Imagine how the Earth will look to astronauts in a century's time or longer? These images are incredibly difficult to take from a spacecraft traveling along at almost 28,000 kilometers per hour. The images are held at NASA's Johnson Space Center in a special archive for astronaut photography. Watch for the great cities of Beijing, Istanbul, Melbourne, Montreal, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Buenos Aires, Brasilia (one of our favorites), and more.

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[vinwilder707]

Where did the whole Indian Sub-Continent Vanish?? Into your pocket?! New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore.. All are missing.

[SpaceRip]

Relax. Delhi and Mumbai appear in Part 2, coming soon. The astronaut photos of Bangalore at night that we've seen are too dim to be of interest.

[SomeoneOnTheRun]

Can't wait until we can see similar views on distant planets through incredibly powerful telescopes.

[staalman]

That's not really France @ 0:23: Your label 'France' comes in hitting the south of The Netherlands, and it vanishes next to France (Calais). The bright part on the right is mostly Belgium.

Great shots though in this vid.

[234nhchan]

MALAYSIA!!! 3:07 !!!! :(

[fktcd]

The lights are really that big from ISS?

[Victoria Murley]

Lol I wasn't stating a fact..I was giving my opinion. I think Earth was beautiful before and after we came here.

[Kyle B]

Not true! Earth was beautiful before people from space we just look like a disease that is infecting the earth

[Victoria Murley]

This is incredibly beautiful. c:

[jmitterii2]

In the big scheme of things, that's probably what we are at this point. But like bacteria in a petri dish, over time can give way to even more amazing things. Bacteria gave way to organs and then organisms like us.

[jmitterii2]

Petri dish with bacteria growing in it is what came to my mind as well. LOL! Look, were little growth stuff on a watery blue planet with hard land mass. And look, we glow. Very pretty.

[Lukas Smola]

sorry lov u

[Han Chen]

Shanghai: 23 million people. My jaw just hit the ground. I have been there couple of times but Jesus these are a lot of people.