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Guadalupe Island As Seen From Orbit

By Keith Cowing
July 28, 2014
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Guadalupe Island As Seen From Orbit
Guadalupe Island
NASA

From an altitude of 223 nautical miles, one of the Expedition 40 crew members on the International Space Station photographed this nearly vertical image of Guadalupe Island and the Von Karman cloud vortices that are its storied neighbors just off southern California’s Pacific Coast.
ISS040-E-016570 (21 June 2014) – Larger image

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