Earth Observation
ISS040-E-081008 (25 July 2014) --- One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the International Space Station, flying 225 nautical miles above Earth, photographed this image of the Tifernine dunes and the Tassili Najjer Mountains in Algeria. The area is about 800 miles south, southeast of Algiers, the capital of Algeria. The dunes are in excess of 1,000 feet in height.
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NASA ID
iss040e081008
Date Created
July 25, 2014
Center
JSC
Media Type
image
Photographer
Alex Gerst
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