ISS007 Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Photographic Highlights

WATCHING THE WORLD GO BY
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ISS007-E-8259
photo ID ISS007-E-8259
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Watching the World Go By: Dust blowing from the Sahara Desert obscures the country of Western Sahara. In this view the Space Station is over the Atlantic and Ed was looking southwest toward the horizon. On the right winds are causing partial Von Karmen vortices to form downwind of the Canary Islands. ISS007-E-8259 (June 25, 2003, 50 mm lens).

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