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The featured astronaut photograph, ISS013-E-75141, was acquired September 2, 2006, with a Kodak 760C digital camera using a 800 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The images in this article have been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast. 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 February 12, 2007
Data acquired September 2, 2006

Source:
ISS > Digital Camera
Collection:
Astronaut Photography