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The Rocky Mountain Trench

As seen from the International Space Station, a long trench divides the Columbia Mountains and the Canadian Rockies.


Astronaut photograph ISS040-E-129996 was acquired on September 6, 2014, with a Nikon D3S digital camera with an 31 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group, Johnson Space Center. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory 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 Adam Voiland, with information from Ben Gadd.

Published December 13, 2014
Data acquired September 6, 2014

Source:
ISS > Digital Camera
Collection:
Astronaut Photography