File:Ar Rub’ al Khali Sand Sea, Arabian Peninsula.JPG

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(4,256 × 2,832 pixels, file size: 10.4 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

Description
English: This astronaut photograph highlights a part of the Ar Rub’ al Khali near its south-eastern margin, in the Sultanate of Oman. Large, linear reddish-brown sand dunes alternate with inter-dune salt flats, or sabkhas. The long, linear dunes begin to break up into isolated large star dunes to the northeast and east (image right).
Date
Source NASA Earth Observatory
Author ISS Expedition 27 crew
Camera location19° 06′ 00″ N, 53° 12′ 00″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
This image or video was catalogued by Johnson Space Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: ISS027-E-34290.

This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.
Other languages:

العربية ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ български ∙ català ∙ čeština ∙ dansk ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ فارسی ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ magyar ∙ հայերեն ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Nederlands ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ +/−

Image acquired with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 200 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.

Licensing[edit]

Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
Warnings:
Annotations
InfoField
This image is annotated: View the annotations at Commons

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current11:02, 31 May 2011Thumbnail for version as of 11:02, 31 May 20114,256 × 2,832 (10.4 MB)Originalwana (talk | contribs){{Information |Description ={{en|1=This astronaut photograph highlights a part of the Ar Rub’ al Khali near its south-eastern margin, in the Sultanate of Oman. Large, linear reddish-brown sand dunes alternate with in

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Ar_Rub’_al_Khali_Sand_Sea,_Arabian_Peninsula.JPG&oldid=863238487"