An African city photographed by ESA's Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli on 2 January 2011 from the International Space Station, where he is serving as a flight engineer with Cady Coleman, Dmitri Kondratyev, Oleg Skripochka, Alexander Kaleri and commander Scott Kelly. "Not a capital, but equally famous," helps Paolo in his twitter message.
Paolo’s MagISStra mission is Europe’s third long-duration mission on the ISS. He will land back to Earth in June 2010.