STS-101 Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Debriefing with Crewmembers
June 19, 2000

LAKE CHAD AND THE SAHARA
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STS101-707-27
photo ID STS101-707-27
STS101-707-27         Click the photo number to access all resolutions available and the database record.
Karakul Lake in the Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan, has partially filled an impact crater. The original crater diameter was 45 kilometers (the lake is 25 km across) and it has been dated at less than 10 million years. We have few photographs of this crater lake in our database collection.

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