Lake Chad and a Bodele Dust Plume - related image preview

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Lake Chad and a Bodele Dust Plume

Desert meets woodland in Africa, punctuated by an ancient lake.


Astronaut photograph ISS042-E-244403 was acquired on February 12, 2015, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using a 32 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by a member of the Expedition 42 crew. The image 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, Texas State University, Jacobs Contract at NASA-JSC.

Published March 30, 2015
Data acquired February 12, 2015

Source:
ISS > Digital Camera
Collection:
Astronaut Photography