Denver, Colorado as seen from the ISS. The Denver airport, one of the largest in the world, is the dark patch right of …
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Denver, Colorado as seen from the ISS. The Denver airport, one of the largest in the world, is the dark patch right of center. To the West, city lights are abruptly extinguished by the Rocky Mountains.
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