![]() Many of these vessels are likely fishing boats using bright lights to attract squid and other sea life. North of the city of Surabaya, the capital of East Java province, large numbers of boat lights dot the darkened Java Sea. ![]() The photo, taken on October 20, 2014, captured light from roads and cities, fishing boats, lightning, airglow, and even a few gas flares. To the discerning eye, these lights reveal intricate details of both natural phenomena and the unmistakable footprints of human civilization. However, as this photograph-taken over the Java Sea by a member of the Expedition 42 crew onboard the International Space Station-reveals, at night these “nighttime lights” become visible. The visible lights produced by modern civilization are often obscured by the more intense light of the Sun during the day.
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