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A Plateau of Chasms

Tassili n’Ajjer was once shaped by water, but the plateau gives shape to the sands below.


Astronaut photograph ISS053-E-131276 was acquired on October 22, 2017, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using a 500 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 53 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 March 12, 2018
Data acquired October 22, 2017

Source:
ISS > Digital Camera
Collection:
Astronaut Photography