NASA ISS Astronaut's photo shows Mexican wildfire at night

A photograph snapped from the International Space Station shows the bright lights of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, across the border in Mexico, with smoke from wildfires wafting to the right.

The photo was taken on June 2, and appears to show the Whitewater-Baldy wildfire. A docked Soyuz TMA spacecraft is seen in the foreground.

The smoke likely comes from the Whitewater-Baldy fire, the largest in New Mexico's history, which has chewed through 465 square miles (1,205 square kilometers) of forests near Glenwood, N.M., since it was ignited by lightning on May 16, according to the U.S. Forest Service.

The fire is about 225 miles (362 kilometers) to the northeast of El Paso, and is now 87 percent contained.

Although it's not possible to distinguish the border of the United States and Mexico in the photo, a line of lights along Interstate 10 —which is slightly north of the border — is visible, according to a release from NASA's Earth Observatory.