California Coast, Los Angeles to San Diego Bay

This hand-held astronaut photo shows urban areas and fault-related topographic features from San Bernardino, California, to Tijuana, Mexico.

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Astronaut photograph ISS018-E-5058 was acquired on October 24, 2008, with a Nikon D2Xs digital camera fitted with a 45 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 18 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 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 M. Justin Wilkinson, NASA-JSC.

Published December 15, 2008
Data acquired October 24, 2008

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ISS > Digital Camera