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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rapa" data-source="post: 14233" data-attributes="member: 212">HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT YOU ARE VIEWING. IT IS HISTORIC TOO ASTHIS IS THE LAST MISSION FOR COLUMBIA .The photograph attached was takenBy the crew on board the Columbia during its last mission, on a cloudlessday.The picture is of Europe and Africa when the sun is setting.Half of thepicture is in night. The bright dots you see are the cities' lights. The toppart of Africa is the Sahara Desert Note that the lights are alreadyon in Holland , Paris , and Barcelona, and that's it's still daylightin Dublin.London , Lisbon , and Madrid . The sun is still shining on the Straitof Gibraltar . The Mediterranean Sea is already in darkness.In themiddle of the Atlantic Ocean you can see the Azores Islands;belowthem to the right are the Madeira Islands ; a bit below are theCanary Islands; and further South, close to the farthest western point of Africa , are the Cape !Verde Islands.Note that the Sahara is huge and can be seen clearly bothduring day time and night time.To the left, on top, is Greenland ,<img src="http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/5893/daynight6uw.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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