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Retreating Aral Sea Coastlin
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Retreating Aral Sea Coastlines |
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The arrow-shaped island in the Aral Sea (lower-right view, taken in 1988) used to be a 35-kilometer-long visual marker, indicating the Aral Sea to astronauts. An image from the present International Space Station increment (top) shows how much the coastline has changed as the sea level has dropped during the last three decades. Arrows indicate the northern shoreline of the original island. This 2005 image shows that the island is now part of the mainland. Deep blues and greens indicate the water-covered areas. The exposed sea floor is characterized by old shorelines (parallel lines surrounding the island) and outlines of ancient deltas. An intermediate stage in the falling sea level is documented in a view taken in 1996 (lower left), in which the island appears larger and elongated towards the eastern shore of the sea. Since the 1960s, sea levels have dropped drastically as rivers that maintained the level of the Aral Sea were diverted—completely in later years—for agricultural purposes, especially for growing cotton. A thriving fishing industry in the world's then fourth-largest lake was largely eliminated as the area of the sea shrank by more than 60 percent. Salts and pesticides that accumulated from agricultural runoff were subsequently exposed on the dry parts of the sea floor. Winds now transport these pollutants into surrounding fields and towns. Although the Kazakhstan government made a concerted effort to increase river inflow into the sea starting in 2003, it will take years before sea levels begin to rise. Astronaut photograph ISS011-E-7865 [ http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS011&roll=E&frame=7865 ] was acquired June 3, 2005, with a Kodak 760C digital camera with a 180 mm lens. The 1996 photograph NM23-746-24 [ http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=NM21&roll=746&frame=24 ] was acquired on May 14, 1996, with a Hasselblad camera fitted with a 100 mm lens. The 1988 photograph STS27-34-39 [ http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=STS027&roll=34&frame=39 ] was acquired on December 5, 1988, with a Hasselblad camera fitted with a 250 mm lens. The images are provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group at the Johnson Space Center. The International Space Station Program [ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/home/index.html ] supports the laboratory to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. [ http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov ] |
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St. Petersburg and the Gulf
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ISS011-E-12401
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2005-07-10 |
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NASA -- Astronaut photograph eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS011&roll=E&frame=12401 ISS011-E-12401 was acquired July 10, 2005, with a Kodak 760C digital camera with a 400 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group, Johnson Space Center. The spaceflight.nasa.gov/home/index.html International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. |
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Retreating Aral Sea Coastlin
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The arrow-shaped island in t
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ISS011-E-7865
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2005-06-03 |
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NASA -- Astronaut photograph eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS011&roll=E&frame=7865 ISS011-E-7865 was acquired June 3, 2005, with a Kodak 760C digital camera with a 180 mm lens. The 1996 photograph eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=NM21&roll=746&frame=24 NM23-746-24 was acquired on May 14, 1996, with a Hasselblad camera fitted with a 100 mm lens. The 1988 photograph eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=STS027&roll=34&frame=39 STS27-34-39 was acquired on December 5, 1988, with a Hasselblad camera fitted with a 250 mm lens. The images are provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group at the Johnson Space Center. The spaceflight.nasa.gov/home/index.html International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC eol.jsc.nasa.gov Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. |
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ISS011-E-7865 |
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Uralsk, Kazakhstan: Image of
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The approximate boundary bet
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ISS011-E-6712_lrg
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2005-05-22 |
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NASA -- Astronaut photographs eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS011&roll=E&f rame=6717 ISS011-E-6717 and eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS011&roll=E&f rame=6712 ISS011-E-6712 were acquired May 22, 2005, with a Kodak 760C digital camera with an 800 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group, Johnson Space Center. The spaceflight.nasa.gov/home/index.html International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. |
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ISS011-E-6712_lrg |
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Uralsk, Kazakhstan: Image of
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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The approximate boundary bet
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ISS011-E-6712_lrg
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2005-05-22 |
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NASA -- Astronaut photographs eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS011&roll=E&f rame=6717 ISS011-E-6717 and eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS011&roll=E&f rame=6712 ISS011-E-6712 were acquired May 22, 2005, with a Kodak 760C digital camera with an 800 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group, Johnson Space Center. The spaceflight.nasa.gov/home/index.html International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. |
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ISS011-E-6712_lrg |
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Uralsk, Kazakhstan: Image of
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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The approximate boundary bet
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ISS011-E-6712_lrg
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2005-05-22 |
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NASA -- Astronaut photographs eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS011&roll=E&f rame=6717 ISS011-E-6717 and eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS011&roll=E&f rame=6712 ISS011-E-6712 were acquired May 22, 2005, with a Kodak 760C digital camera with an 800 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group, Johnson Space Center. The spaceflight.nasa.gov/home/index.html International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. |
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ISS011-E-6712_lrg |
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