Astronaut Photography of Coral Reefs
Chapter 9: Middle Eastern Seas

STS062-90-81

STS062-90-81
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The Red Sea coastline running north from Jeddah. Although reefs have been badly disrupted as this city has grown, important fringing and patch reefs remain to north and south [STS062-90-81, 1994].
World Atlas of Coral ReefsThis 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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