File:Ar Rub’ al Khali Sand Sea, Arabian Peninsula.JPG
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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). |
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| Source | NASA Earth Observatory |
| Author | ISS Expedition 27 crew |
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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.
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