You can thank commander Shane Kimbrough for this gorgeous shot. Kimbrough’s aboard the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Expedition 50, which is conducting more than 250 experiments.
This article appears in Jan 18-24, 2017.
Here’s Cleveland at Night as Seen From the International Space Station
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You can clearly make out the City of Detroit, embedded within the surrounding suburbs and metro area, as it looks silvery instead of yellow.
Gotta be the Detroit street lighting…they apparently still have the older, less intrusive, and less harsh mercury vapor lights, instead of the sodium vapor lights that everybody else has received over the last forty-plus years.
Chicago got them in the mid-70s, and Cleveland got theirs in the mid-Nineties, and nothing has looked the same ever since.
Chuckles the Clown
No, Detroit has switched over almost entirely to new, modern LED street lighting.
That might explain the color difference. I have LED motion-sensor lights in my yard, and there’s also a sodium-vapor street light on my tree lawn. They are completely different…the LEDs are much brighter and whiter light than the street light, which is far more yellow.
chuckles the Clown