View of the Great Salt Lake from Skylab

America's first space station was launched forty years ago. Astronauts on Skylab conducted some the first comprehensive visual studies of Earth’s surface.

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Astronaut photograph SL2-6-478 was acquired in the spring of 1973 with a Hasselblad camera using an 80 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Skylab 2 crew. It has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

Published May 14, 2013
Data acquired 1973

Source:

Skylab 2 > 70mm Camera

Topics:

Hydrosphere > Surface Water > Lakes

Land Surface > Geomorphology > Fluvial Landforms/Processes

Collection:

Astronaut Photography