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iss064e000448 (Oct. 25, 2020) --- Emi Koussi, a high pyroclastic shield volcano in northern Chad, is also the...
iss064e020109 (Jan. 5, 2021) --- This view from a window on the SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle docked to the...
iss067e141205 (June 19, 2022) --- This portion of the Western Desert is an area of the Sahara where the borders of...
iss067e123244 (June 10, 2022) --- A portion of the Sahara in Libya's northwestern district of Nalut is pictured from...
iss066e137392 (Feb. 7, 2022) --- A portion of the Sahara Desert in Algeria, with sand dunes, rocky platforms and...
iss070e052305 (Jan. 3, 2024) --- Sand dunes, sandstone plateaus, and rocky platforms that comprise the Tassili...
iss073e0734903 (Aug. 25, 2025) --- A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft approaches the International Space Station's...
iss072e404539 (Dec. 26, 2024) --- A portion of the Ennedi Massif in Northern Chad, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in...
iss067e286458 (Aug. 21, 2022) --- The Richat Structure, also known as the "Eye of the Sahara," an eroded geological...
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS)....
iss065e009521 (April 29, 2021) --- Mount Arkanu in southeast Libya, near the border with Egypt and Sudan, is...
iss064e011532 (Dec. 9, 2020) --- A portion of the Sahara Desert in central western Algeria is pictured from the...
iss072e095217 (Oct. 20, 2024) --- The Niger River flows through the African nation of Mali near the Sahara Desert in...
iss062e061341 (Feb. 27, 2020) --- The near-circular massifs of the Aïr Mountains within the Sahara Desert were...
ISS042E007131 (11/22/2014) — Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured this image of a huge crater...
The Air Mountains are located in northern Niger and extend over 84,000 square kilometers within the Sahara Desert....
On Feb. 21, 2016 at 14:00 UTC, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua...
A three-day composite global map of surface soil moisture as retrieved from NASA SMAP radiometer instrument between...
ISS038-E-026862 (8 Jan. 2014) --- The Western Sahara Desert is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition...
iss073e1196695 (Nov. 27, 2025) --- The Soyuz MS-28 crew spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Chris WIlliams and...
iss061e012458 (Oct. 20, 2019) --- Known as the “Eye of the Sahara," the Richat Structure in northwestern Mauritania...
Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-45) onboard photo of Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (Atlas-1)...
iss044e065321 (Aug. 24, 2015) --- JAXA's (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) H-II Transfer Vehicle-5, also known as...
iss073e1196703 (Nov. 27, 2025) --- The Soyuz MS-28 crew spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Chris Williams and...