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Caldera Lakes to the North of Rome

Ancient volcanoes collapsed back into the crust of Italy, allowing lakes to form.


Astronaut photograph ISS036-E-39778 was acquired on September 3, 2013, with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 400 millimeter 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 36 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 William L. Stefanov, Jacobs at NASA-JSC.

Published September 16, 2013
Data acquired September 3, 2013

Source:
ISS > Digital Camera
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Astronaut Photography