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English: The western and central parts of Crete appear surrounded by quicksilver in this astronaut photograph taken from the International Space Station. This phenomenon is known as sunglint, caused by light reflecting off of the sea surface directly toward the observer. The point of maximum reflectance is visible as a bright white region to the north-west of the island. Surface currents causing variations in the degree of reflectance are visible near the south-western shoreline of Crete and the smaller island of Gavdos (image lower left).
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Source NASA Earth Observatory
Author ISS Expedition 28 crew
This image or video was catalogued by Johnson Space Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: ISS028-E-18562.

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Image acquired with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 48 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.

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The island of Crete

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

Crete

significant event

Expedition 28

copyright status

public domain

determination method: work of the federal government of the United States

inception

22 July 2011

captured with

Nikon D3S

catalog code

ISS028-E-18562

catalog: Media catalogue of the Johnson Space Center

exposure time

0.002 second

f-number

10

focal length

48 millimetre

ISO speed

200

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image/jpeg

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photograph

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