Agriculture in Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert

The fertile flood plains around the San Miguel River are conducive to maize and other agricultural production.

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Astronaut photograph ISS062-E-151785 was acquired on April 16, 2020, with a Nikon D5 digital camera using a focal length of 500 millimeters. It 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 62 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 Cadan Cummings, Jacobs, JETS Contract at NASA-JSC.

Published November 6, 2022
Data acquired April 16, 2020

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ISS > Digital Camera

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Astronaut Photography