Ice Floes off the Northeastern Tip of Urup Island, Russia

Off the tip of Urup Island, the difference between sea ice and island can be hard to identify.

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Astronaut photograph ISS023-E-15093 was acquired on March 30, 2010, with a Nikon D2Xs digital camera fitted with an 800 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 23 crew. The image in this article has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast. Lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by William L. Stefanov, NASA-JSC.

Published April 19, 2010
Data acquired March 30, 2010

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ISS > Digital Camera