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Spacecraft nadir point: 27.5° N, 34.7° E

Photo center point: 32.5° N, 35.5° E

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Spacecraft Altitude: 160 nautical miles (296km)
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Image Caption: Across the Arabian Peninsula from the Red Sea is the Dead Sea fault zone, another region of rifting as well
as strike-slip faulting. This view places the Dead Sea zone in the grander context of interactions among the
African plate (Arabian Peninsula, Israel, Lebanon), the Arabian plate (Saudi Arabia, Syria), and the
Eurasian plate (Turkey, Gulf of Iskenderun in upper part of photo). The African-Arabian plate boundary,
like most plate boundaries, is irregular with steps, jogs and differing styles of deformation. The blocks
flanking the long straight faults of the Dead Sea zone are moving laterally past each other, as well as rifting
apart.