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Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

In Colombia, high mountains show a rare sight in the tropics: snow and ice.


Astronaut photograph ISS042-E-294940 was acquired on February 27, 2015, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using a 290 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 a member of the Expedition 42 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 M. Justin Wilkinson, Texas State University, Jacobs Contract at NASA-JSC.

Published April 13, 2015
Data acquired February 27, 2015

Source:
ISS > Digital Camera
Collection:
Astronaut Photography