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Ice in the Sea of Okhotsk

Off the coast of northern Japan and eastern Russia, a swirl of currents push ice around in a clash of winter and summer currents.


Astronaut photograph ISS039-E-11773 was acquired on April 14, 2014, with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 80 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 39 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 at NASA-JSC

Published April 28, 2014
Data acquired April 14, 2014

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Astronaut Photography