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English: "Tarout Bay, Saudi Arabia, looks powerfully unnatural and purposeful from orbit." Caption by astronaut Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station. Visible here is Tarout Bay, including northeast Dammam, Saihat, Qatif, Tarout, and Ras Tanura

Date

24 February 2013, 08:23:08

Source

ISS034-E-053513

Author

Expedition 34 Crew
Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center
Derivative work including grading, noise removal and local corrections.: Julian Herzog

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Version as originally published by Chris Hadfield.

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ISS Crew Earth Observations: **ISS034-E-053513**
Identification
Mission	ISS034 ( Expedition 34)
Roll	E
Frame	053513
Country or Geographic Name	SAUDI ARABIA
Camera
Camera Focal Length	400 mm
Camera	NIKON D3S
Quality
Percentage of Cloud Cover	0-10%
Nadir What is Nadir?
Date	2013-02-24
Time	08:23:08

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	10:30, 27 April 2013		2,832 × 4,256 (7.3 MB)	Julian Herzog	Grading adjustments.
	09:55, 27 April 2013		2,832 × 4,256 (6.69 MB)	Julian Herzog	User created page with UploadWizard

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The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):

Tarout Island

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The following other wikis use this file:

Usage on ar.wikipedia.org
- تاروت (جزيرة)
Usage on de.wikipedia.org
- Benutzer:Schneffe himself
Usage on el.wikipedia.org
- Νήσος Ταρούτ
Usage on fa.wikipedia.org
- جزیره تاروت
Usage on he.wikipedia.org
- ראס תנורה
Usage on it.wikipedia.org
- Isola di Tarout
Usage on nl.wikipedia.org
- Ras Tanura
Usage on nn.wikipedia.org
- Tarout
Usage on no.wikipedia.org
- Tarout
Usage on uk.wikipedia.org
- Тарут

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Metering mode	Pattern
Light source	Unknown
Flash	Flash did not fire
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DateTimeDigitized subseconds	65
Sensing method	One-chip color area sensor
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Custom image processing	Normal process
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Digital zoom ratio	1
Focal length in 35 mm film	400 mm
Scene capture type	Standard
Scene control	None
Contrast	Normal
Saturation	Normal
Sharpness	Normal
Subject distance range	Unknown
Serial number of camera	2008336
Lens used	400.0 mm f/2.8
Software used	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Date metadata was last modified	14:27, 27 April 2013
Unique ID of original document	9A30F8FCEF9D369A3B2FE3A4923D21E9
IIM version	4

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