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Lake Maracaibo Duck Weed

Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo presents a complicated surface to interpret. Oil platforms and other infrastructure supporting the oil industry generate oil slicks, heavy ship traffic produces linear ship wakes, and vivid green streaks and swirls are patches of duck weed growth that has thrived on the lake.


Astronaut photograph ISS009-E-19682 was acquired August 23, 2004, with a Kodak K760C digital camera with an 180-mm lens, and is provided by the Earth Observations Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory 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.

Published September 6, 2004
Data acquired August 23, 2004

Source:
ISS > Digital Camera
Collection:
Astronaut Photography