Pagan Island, Northern Marianas

The island sits along the tectonic boundary where the old, cold Pacific plate is being subducted at the Marianas trench.

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Astronaut photograph ISS030-E-122047 was acquired on March 6, 2012, with a Nikon D3X digital camera using an effective 1200 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 30 crew. The image 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 Cynthia A. Evans, NASA-JSC.

Published March 26, 2012
Data acquired March 6, 2012

Source:

ISS > Digital Camera

Collection:

Astronaut Photography