PARIS AT NIGHT.
The
pattern of the street grid dominates at night, providing a completely different
set of visual features from those visible during the day. For instance, the
winding Seine River is a main visual cue by day, but here the thin black line
of the river is hard to detect until you focus on the strong meanders and the
street lights on both banks.
The brightest boulevard in the dense network
of streets is the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, the historical axis of the city,
as designed in the 17th century. Every year on Bastille Day (July 14), the largest
military parade in Europe processes down the Champs Élysées, reviewed by the
President of the Republic. This grand avenue joins the royal Palace of the
Tuileries—whose gardens appear as a dark rectangle on the river—to the
star-like meeting place of eleven major boulevards at the Arc de Triomphe.
The
many forested parks of Paris stand out as black polygons—such as the Bois de
Boulogne and Vincennes. Orly and Charles de Gaulle airports are distinguished
by their very bright lights next to the dark areas of runways and surrounding
open land. Paris’s great ring road, the Boulevard Périphérique, encloses the
city center.
Astronaut
photograph ISS043-E-93480 was acquired on April 8, 2015, with a Nikon D4
digital camera using a 400 millimeter lens.
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