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Solar Evaporation Ponds, Atacama Desert

Brightly colored solar evaporation (salt) ponds in the Atacama Desert give this astronaut photo an unreal quality.


Astronaut photograph ISS019-E-14473 was acquired on May 5, 2009 with a Nikon D2X digital camera fitted with a 400 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 19 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 June 1, 2009
Data acquired May 5, 2009

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ISS > Digital Camera