Etosha Pan, Namibia

The salt-covered, dry lakebed is at the center of Namibia’s largest wildlife park and a major tourist attraction.

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Astronaut photograph ISS030-E-234965 was acquired on December 30, 2011, with a Nikon D2Xs digital camera using a 180 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 30 crew. It 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, Jacobs/ESCG at NASA-JSC.

Published May 14, 2012
Data acquired December 30, 2011

Source:

ISS > Digital Camera

Collection:

Astronaut Photography