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Data acquired April 27, 1998 540 x 400 JPEG
Data acquired April 27, 1998 2536 x 2572 1014 KB Bytes - JPEG
The Isahaya Bay Reclamation project separated approximately 3,000 hectares of tidal flats from the Ariake Sea in 1997. This photograph was taken from the Space Shuttle on April 27, 1998, a year after the sea wall separating Isahaya Bay from the rest of the Ariake Sea was closed.
Photograph STS090-739-79 was provided by the, Johnson Space Center Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory. Additional photographs taken by astronauts can be viewed via the NASA JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.
Published April 1, 2001 Data acquired April 27, 1998