Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina  - related image preview

540 x 405
JPEG

Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina  - related image preview

1000 x 750
537 KB - JPEG

Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina  - related image preview

JPEG

Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

The port city of Bahía Blanca lies almost 600 kilometers southwest of Buenos Aires on the southern rim of the Argentine economic heartland. This small city of 275,000 people is located near the mouth of the Arroyo Naposta.


The featured astronaut photograph ISS014-E-5615 was acquired October 14, 2006, with a Kodak 760C digital camera using a 400 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis 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 March 12, 2007
Data acquired October 14, 2006

Source:
ISS > Digital Camera
Collection:
Astronaut Photography