Earth observations taken by the STS-125 crew aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. View of Mt. Everest (on right) in the Himalya Mountains of Tibet. This image was taken on May 17, 2009 at 01:36:05 GMT with the 80-200mm lens set to 200mm, when the orbiter was at the nadir point of 21.5N 92.8E. The geographical center point of the image is actually near 28.01N 86.28E.
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Earth observations taken by the STS-125 crew aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. View of Mt. Everest (on right) in the Himalya Mountains of Tibet. This image was taken on May 17, 2009 at 01:36:05 GMT with the 80-200mm lens set to 200mm, when the orbiter was at the nadir point of 21.5N 92.8E. The geographical center point of the image is actually near 28.01N 86.28E.