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A view of downtown San Francisco from the International Space Station. The city's streets are visible in the daylight, as well as the Golden Gate Bridge to the north and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge connecting to Oakland to the east.

San Francisco’s Patchwork Streets

A period of unsettled weather brought scattered showers and thunderstorms to California’s Bay Area on May 27, 2026. That afternoon, a break in the clouds left downtown San Francisco and nearby communities beneath mostly cloud-free skies, allowing an astronaut aboard the International Space Station to take this photograph.

Image Credit: NASA

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