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Malta seen from satellite

auteur: Nasa/GSFC/Novapix

référence: t-eumal-00002

Image Size 300 DPI: 23 * 18 cm

Malta, an independent republic, consists of a small group of islands located in the Mediterranean Sea south of Sicily, with a total area of 316 square kilometers. The capital and leading port of the country is Valletta, which appears as a gray patch around the two deep inlets on Malta's northern coastline. This natural-color image was acquired on July 29, 2001, by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) aboard NASA's Terra satellite.

Keywords for this photo:

2001 - ASTER - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - EUROPE - ISLAND - MALTA - MEDITERRANEAN SEA - SATELLITE IMAGE - TERRA -