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F6 Space trips can be fun .. thx eom.

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Mystery 'city' caught on stunning time-lapse video from space revealed to be massive Midwest oil field

Lit-up: In the time-lapse video from the International Space Station, major cities in the Midwest can be identified by their bright lights

Mystery 'city': To the west of Bismarck, North Dakota, is a massive patch of light which has been identified as the Bakken Oil Field, which reportedly stretches 200,000 square miles

Flame: The huge amount of light given off in the area may be due to natural gas flares, flaming discharges used at oil fields to keep equipment from being overpressured
16th November 2011
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2061833/Bakken-oil-field-North-Dakota-mystery-city-lit-time-lapse-video-space.html [with comments] [the videos in the post to which this is a reply, and the one before that]