Living on the Edge of the Taklimakan Desert

Bosten Lake, one of the largest inland lakes in China, and the Kaidu River have made this dry landscape habitable.

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Astronaut photograph ISS047-E-54173 was acquired on May 11, 2016, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using a 400 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by a member of the Expedition 47 crew. The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab 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. Caption by M. Justin Wilkinson, Texas State University, Jacobs Contract at NASA-JSC.

Published August 22, 2016
Data acquired May 11, 2016

Source:

ISS > Digital Camera

Collection:

Astronaut Photography