[:ja]宇宙飛行士がISSから撮影した夜のアフリカとサウジアラビアです。アラビア半島の西側の紅海沿い、東側のペルシャ湾沿いに都市が広がり、光も集まっています。
アラビア半島はその面積の大部分が砂漠に覆われており、半島の中央から北部にかけてはダフナ砂漠およびナフド砂漠、南東にはルブアルハリ砂漠が広がっています。紅海沿いには南北に山脈が連なっており、最高峰は半島南西部のナビー・シュアイブ山で標高は3,666mです。アラビア半島は四方を海と砂漠に囲まれた閉鎖的な地理条件下にあったため、アラビア半島に住むアラブ人たちは自らの居住地を「島」の意味を持つ「جزيرة（ジャズィーラ）」に定冠詞を付けた「الجزيرة（アル・ジャズィーラ）」と呼んでおり、アル・ジャズィーラという語は「アラブ地域」の代名詞として慣習的に用いられています。
NASAが公開している夜のアラビア半島の画像はこちらです。
参考文献： NASA Earth’s Tweet
地球俯瞰画像を見る： LiVEARTH
[Earthview Wonders] No.887: Arabian Peninsula At Night
Astronaut on board ISS captured Africa and Saudi Arabia at night. Cities and lights are concentrated on the western and eastern shore of the Arabian Peninsula.
The Arabian Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the world, consisting of 7 countries: Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The most prominent feature of the peninsula is desert, but in the southwest, there are mountain ranges, which receive greater rainfall than the rest of the peninsula. Harrat ash Shaam is a large volcanic field that extends from northwestern Arabia into Jordan and southern Syria. Geologically, this region is more appropriately called the Arabian subcontinent because it lies on a tectonic plate of its own, the Arabian Plate, which has been moving incrementally away from the rest of Africa (forming the Red Sea) and north, toward Asia, into the Eurasian Plate (forming the Zagros Mountains).
This is the Arabian Peninsula at night released by NASA.
Reference: NASA Earth’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:en][Earthview Wonders] No.887: Arabian Peninsula At Night
Astronaut on board ISS captured Africa and Saudi Arabia at night. Cities and lights are concentrated on the western and eastern shore of the Arabian Peninsula.
The Arabian Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the world, consisting of 7 countries: Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The most prominent feature of the peninsula is desert, but in the southwest, there are mountain ranges, which receive greater rainfall than the rest of the peninsula. Harrat ash Shaam is a large volcanic field that extends from northwestern Arabia into Jordan and southern Syria. Geologically, this region is more appropriately called the Arabian subcontinent because it lies on a tectonic plate of its own, the Arabian Plate, which has been moving incrementally away from the rest of Africa (forming the Red Sea) and north, toward Asia, into the Eurasian Plate (forming the Zagros Mountains).
This is the Arabian Peninsula at night released by NASA.
Reference: NASA Earth’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:]