English: This astronaut photograph highlights the metropolitan
area of
Izmit along the northern and eastern shores of the Sea of Marmara, at the end of the Gulf of Izmit.
Commercial and industrial centres—including
petroleum refineries and
automobilefactories—are recognizable by large structures with
white rooftops. The smaller city of Gölcük on the southern shoreline of the Gulf is the location of a Turkish
naval facility and another automobile factory. Both urban areas are built primarily on flat lowlands adjacent to the Gulf, with
green vegetation marking highland areas to the north of Izmit and south of Gölcük.
Image acquired with a Nikon D2Xs digital camera using a 180 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.
The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the
Soviet/
Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain.
The
SOHO (ESA & NASA) joint project implies that all materials created by its probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use.
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