Astronaut Soichi Noguchi captured from ISS Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.
Riyadh is in the center of the Arabian Peninsula on a large plateau and home to more than 6 million people. The city used to be small before Saudi State establishment, but after World War II, oil wealth rapidly modernized the city to be the largest in the country.
(Credit: Soichi Noguchi, JAXA, NASA)
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Soichi Noguchi’s Tweet
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