The Black Hills

The dark, pine-covered slopes rise up from the Great Plains like an island from a sea of grass.

Astronaut photographs ISS047-E-98315 through ISS047-E-98336 were acquired on May 4, 2016, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using a 1500 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 48 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 Pola Lem.

Published October 23, 2016
Data acquired May 4, 2016

Source:

ISS > Digital Camera

Collection:

Astronaut Photography