Credit:Astronaut photographs ISS008-E-5649 and ISS008-E-5652 were taken November 8, 2003, with a Kodak DCS760 digital camera equipped with an 80 mm lens and provided by the Earth Observations Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The two images were mosaicked together to make this image The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.
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Data Date:November 8, 2003
Visualization Date:December 22, 2003
Sensor(s):ISS - Digital Camera