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Cancún, Mexico

A long lens was used by astronauts aboard the space station to take this photograph of the many natural and built features around this Mexican tourist mecca.


Astronaut photograph ISS040-E-112662 was acquired on August 30, 2014, with a Nikon 2Xs digital camera using an 800 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 40 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, Texas State University at NASA-JSC.

Published January 12, 2015
Data acquired August 30, 2014

Source:
ISS > Digital Camera
Collection:
Astronaut Photography