Start Date: End Date: Published Date Data Date
Data acquired January 23, 2016 720 x 480 JPEG
Data acquired January 23, 2016 4928 x 3280 7 MB - JPEG
720 x 480 JPEG
The metropolitan area is one of the fastest-growing cities in the world.
Astronaut photograph ISS046-E-19670 was acquired on January 23, 2016, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using a 400 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 46 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 U., Jacobs Contract at NASA-JSC.
Published April 25, 2016 Data acquired January 23, 2016