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Kinshasa and Brazzaville

This image, taken from the International Space Station on June 6, 2003, shows two capital cities on opposite banks of the Congo River. The smaller city is Brazzaville on the north side of the river, and Kinshasa on the south side. The cities lie at the downstream end of an almost circular widening in the river known as Stanley Pool. The international boundary follows the south shore of the pool (roughly 30 kilometers in diameter).


World cities are a theme for astronaut photography under the Crew Earth Observations project on the Space Station. Photograph ISS007-E-6305 was taken from the International Space Station using a Kodak DCS760 digital camera and a 180-mm lens on June 6, 2003. Information provided by Justin Wilkinson (Lockheed Martin), Earth Observations Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. 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.

Published March 22, 2004
Data acquired June 6, 2003

Source:
ISS > Digital Camera
Collection:
Astronaut Photography