Simushir Island, Kuril Archipelago

Simushir is a deserted, 5-mile-wide volcanic island in the Kuril Islands chain, half way between northern Japan and the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia. Four volcanoes—Milne, Prevo, Urataman, and Zavaritski—have built cones tall enough to rise above the green forest. The remaining remnant of Zavaritski Volcano is a caldera, formed when a volcano collapses into its emptied magma chamber.

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Astronaut photograph ISS015-E-26171 was acquired on September 1, 2007, with a Kodak 760C digital camera using an 180 mm lens. The image was taken by the Expedition 15 crew, and it is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The image in this article has 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 September 17, 2007
Data acquired September 1, 2007

Source:

ISS > Digital Camera

Collection:

Astronaut Photography