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iss059e013137 (March 5, 2019) --- From an altitude of 255 miles, an Expedition 59 crewmember photographed the Richat...
S65-63256 (16 Dec. 1965) --- Cap Blanc and Levrier Bay on the coast of Spanish Sahara and Mauritania, as seen from...
iss073e1196724 (Nov. 27, 2025) --- The Soyuz MS-28 crew spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Chris Williams and...
iss061e012184 (Oct. 20, 2019) --- Japan's H-II Transfer Vehicle-8 (HTV-8) highlights this image as the International...
iss065e145194 (June 25, 2021) --- Spacewalker Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) waves to the camera 261...
iss059e013142 (April 5, 2019) --- From an altitude of 255 miles, an Expedition 59 crewmember photographed the Richat...
iss073e0032281 (May 15, 2025) --- The sun's glint beams off the Strait of Gibraltar at the top of this photograph as...
ISS040-E-000788 (20 May 2014) --- Expedition 40 Commander Steve Swanson of NASA photographed this image from an...
iss073e0879542 (Oct. 13, 2025) --- Lake Nasser, created by the Aswan High Dam in southern Egypt, is one of the...
S63-06434 (15-16 May 1963) --- East looking view across Atlantic waters toward Africa, showing Mauritania and...
ISS01-E-5390 (16 February 2001) --- This high-angle image of the Space Shuttle Atlantis backdropped over the western...
jsc2023e065186 (10/19/2023) --- Student researchers Inari Toledo (left), Sahara Miller (middle), and Siany Lee...
ISS01-E-5387 (16 February 2001) --- This nadir image of the Space Shuttle Atlantis backdropped over the western...
STS111-321-024 (5-19 June 2002) --- This sunset over the Sahara Desert was photographed by the STS-111 crew members...
ISS040-E-017303 (23 June 2014) --- One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International...
ISS01-E-5389 (16 February 2001) --- This nadir image of the Space Shuttle Atlantis backdropped over the western...
AS04-01-200 (9 Nov. 1967) --- Coastal Brazil, Atlantic Ocean, West Africa, Sahara, looking northwest, as...
iss069e090251 (Sept. 18, 2023) --- The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft (foreground) that carried NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara...
iss059e027887 (April 21, 2019) --- This oblique view from 255 miles above northwest Africa, looking from north to...
ISS021-E-026475 (14 Nov. 2009) --- Ounianga Lakes in the Sahara Desert, in the nation of Chad are featured in this...
Africa's Lake Chad where the borders of Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon merge (13.0N, 14.0E) has been undergoing...
The mineral map shows an area of southwestern Libya in the Sahara Desert observed by NASA's Earth Surface Mineral...
STS062-151-182Z (4-18 March 1994) --- This east-looking view shows most of the east-west extent of the country of...
STS070-705-094 (13-22 JULY 1995) --- The southern half (about 70 miles in this view) of the Tifernine dunes of...