Astronaut Photography of Coral Reefs Chapter 9: Middle Eastern Seas

STS040-78-88

STS040-78-88

Request high resolution version >>   See all metadata, images and captions >> The northern Red Sea and Sinai Peninsula. Fringing reefs line many of these coastlines but are often too narrow to be visible at this scale. Shallow platform reefs are visible in the mouth of the Gulf of Suez [STS040-78-88, 1991].

This is one of 84 astronaut photographs that appear in the World Atlas of Coral Reefs, published by the University of California Press.

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