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View of the Great Salt Lake from Skylab

America's first space station was launched forty years ago. Astronauts on Skylab conducted some the first comprehensive visual studies of Earth’s surface.


Astronaut photograph SL2-6-478 was acquired in the spring of 1973 with a Hasselblad camera using an 80 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Skylab 2 crew. It has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

Published May 14, 2013
Data acquired 1973

Source:
Skylab 2 > 70mm Camera
Topics:
Hydrosphere > Surface Water > Lakes
Land Surface > Geomorphology > Fluvial Landforms/Processes
Collection:
Astronaut Photography