Samarkand, Uzbekistan - related image preview

720 x 480
JPEG

Samarkand, Uzbekistan - related image preview

1440 x 960
685 KB - JPEG

Samarkand, Uzbekistan - related image preview

JPEG

Samarkand, Uzbekistan

A key city on the old Silk Road stands midway between Western Europe and China.


Astronaut photograph ISS037-E-0719 was acquired on September 13, 2013, with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 400 millimeter 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 37 crew. It has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and 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, Jacobs at NASA-JSC.

Published September 23, 2013
Data acquired September 13, 2013

Source:
ISS > Digital Camera
Collection:
Astronaut Photography