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Lake Fitri, Chad

In the desert, a lake shows a long fight between water, wind, and climate.


Astronaut photograph ISS030-E-59398 was acquired on January 19, 2012, with a Nikon D2Xs digital camera using a 180 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 30 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, Jacobs Technology/ESCG at NASA-JSC.

Published February 20, 2012
Data acquired January 19, 2012

Source:
ISS > Digital Camera
Collection:
Astronaut Photography