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Marzuq Sand Sea, Libya

This sand sea is one of the most recognizable features for orbiting astronauts, partly because they see it often through cloudless Saharan skies.


Astronaut photograph ISS042-E-16183 was acquired on November 26, 2014, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using a 17 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 42 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 December 29, 2014
Data acquired November 26, 2014

Source:
ISS > Digital Camera
Collection:
Astronaut Photography