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PIA02647: The Nile
The Nile River was captured by NASA's Terra satellite on January 30, 2001 (Terra orbit 5956). The Nile is the longest river in the world.
 Target Name:  Earth
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Terra 
 Spacecraft:  Terra
 Instrument:  MISR 
 Product Size:  1604 x 1745 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Other  
Information: 		 MISR Site 
 Primary Data Set:  Earth Observing System (EOS) 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA02647.tif (7.185 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA02647.jpg (409.7 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This image of the northern portion of the Nile River was captured by MISR's nadir camera on January 30, 2001 (Terra orbit 5956). The Nile is the longest river in the world, extending for about 6700 kilometers from its headwaters in the highlands of eastern Africa.

At the apex of the fertile Nile River Delta is the Egyptian capital city of Cairo. To the west are the Great Pyramids of Giza. North of here the Nile branches into two distributaries, the Rosetta to the west and the Damietta to the east.

Also visible in this image is the Suez Canal, a shipping waterway connecting Port Said on the Mediterranean Sea with the Gulf of Suez. The Gulf is an arm of the Red Sea, and is located on the righthand side of the picture.

MISR was built and is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, for NASA's Office of Earth Science, Washington, DC. The Terra satellite is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology.

Image Credit:
NASA/GSFC/JPL, MISR Team

Image Addition Date:
2001-03-07