iss073e0312086 (May 22, 2025) --- At top left, the city lights of Benghazi, Libya, arc downward toward the glow of civilization on Egypt's Nile Delta outlining Africa's Mediterranean Sea coast. Israel's metropolitan lights then round north and east into Istanbul, Turkey (far right), and Athens, Greece, and their surrounding suburbs in southern Europe. Resting in the center of the Mediterranean's darkness is the Greek island of Crete.
Date May 22, 2025