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Egyptian Dust Plume, Red Sea

Airborne dust draws the eye to the place where Africa and Arabia once fit together.


Astronaut photograph ISS036-E-11050 was acquired on June 22, 2013, with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 50 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 36 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 M. Justin Wilkinson, Jacobs/JETS at NASA-JSC.

Published July 8, 2013
Data acquired June 22, 2013

Source:
ISS > Digital Camera
Collection:
Astronaut Photography