Oblique View of Dinosaur National Monument

In the northwest corner of Colorado, the west-flowing Yampa River meets the south-flowing Green River, which runs into Utah. Stretches of both river canyons upstream and downstream from the junction make up Dinosaur National Monument. The monument takes its name, of course, from the abundant fossils found in exposed valleys and low ridges of the Morrison Formation, a series of rock layers that were formed late in the Jurassic Period, roughly 145 million years ago.

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Featured astronaut photographs ISS015-E-28001, ISS015-E-28002, ISS015-E-28003, and ISS015-E-28004 were acquired September 12, 2007, by the Expedition 15 crew with a Kodak 760C digital camera using an 800 mm lens. The images are 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 October 1, 2007
Data acquired September 12, 2007

Source:

ISS > Digital Camera

Collection:

Astronaut Photography