Astronaut Thomas Pesquet captured from ISS Kuwait at night.
Kuwait is in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, it shares borders with Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Oil reserves were discovered in commercial quantities in 1938, and today Kuwait has a high-income economy backed by the world’s sixth largest oil reserves. Summers in Kuwait are some of the hottest on earth. The highest recorded temperature was 53.6°C, which is the highest temperature recorded in Asia.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Thomas Pesquet’s Tweet
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