English: This astronaut photograph highlights the modern urban landscape of the İzmir metropolitan area. Due to its location on the Gulf of İzmir (lower left) and its access to the
Aegean Sea, İzmir has been an important
Mediterranean Sea port for most of its history. Densely built residential and commercial districts, characterized by
gray to reddish gray
rooftops, occupy much of the center of the image. Larger structures with bright
white rooftops are indicative of commercial/industrial areas near the port (image left).
Two large
sport complexes, the
Atatürk Stadium and
Şirinyer Hippodrome (horse racing track) are visible at image upper left and image right. Numerous vegetated parks (
green) are located throughout the area.
Image acquired with a Nikon D2Xs digital camera using an 800 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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Aegean Sea, İzmir
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