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City lights in Portugal and Spain and an aurora are seen from the International Space Station
October 7, 2022

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City lights in Portugal and Spain and an aurora are seen from the International Space Station. The image was taken for a story in the November 2015 issue about using satellite images to study climate change.
Photograph by NASA, Nat Geo Image Collection

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