Goodnight Texas
This image comes from one of the astronauts on the International Space Station and shows the state of Texas at night.
The major metropolitan areas stand out quite well. The large city in the foreground is Houston, sitting on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico which appears mostly dark. The Interstate-35 corridor is well defined, with San Antonio at the left hand side, followed by Austin, and to the north the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
The DFW area appears to be getting wet here. There are some clouds over it leaving it fuzzy; this might well be what “a city being rained on at night” looks like from the ISS.
Still further north the cities in Oklahoma can be made out as well.
And I can’t figure out which astronaut to credit for this image because for some reason NASA never specifies in their image releases.
-JBB
Image credit: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2540.html