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Drainage Patterns and Wind Farms in Northwest China

Turbines and alluvial fans scratch out shapes across the flat landscape.


Astronaut photograph ISS050-E-29783 was acquired on December 29, 2016, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using a 240 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 50 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 Andi Hollier, Hx5, JETS Contract at NASA-JSC.

Published May 29, 2017
Data acquired December 29, 2016

Source:
ISS > Digital Camera
Collection:
Astronaut Photography