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It's hard because we're travelling in a weird direction, so everything's "upside down" as well as distorted. The first easy-to-pick-out spot is about 13s in: you can see the shape of San Francisco Bay (upside down) in the bottom of the image (as well as, less obviously, Sacramento and then Reno to its left) and a huge city right in the middle of the image (near the top of the globe) that is LA. The Central Valley (Fresno etc) is also clear in this spot once you've picked out the others.

The second really clear spot is about 17s you can see Baja California fork off from the main continent; a moment later, the first big electrical storm is just west (i.e. to the right of) the Mexico City mega-city.




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