PIA11016: South Australia, Australia
The light corner of the image from NASA's EarthKAM is Lake Torrens, an ephemeral salt lake in South Australia. The twisted strata visible here is part of a rocky desert area in the Australian Outback.
 Target Name:  Earth
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  ISS EarthKam 
 Spacecraft:  Space Shuttle
 Instrument:  Electronic Still Camera 
 Product Size:  3060 x 2036 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA11016.tif (18.69 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA11016.jpg (1.711 MB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

The light corner of the image is Lake Torrens, an ephemeral salt lake in South Australia. The twisted strata visible here is part of a rocky desert area in the Australian Outback. The black line that runs along one side of the image is a railroad that borders the mountains of the Flinders Ranges.

This image was taken from the Space Shuttle on February 15, 2000.

Photojournal note:
EarthKAM was formerly known as KidSat. To see images of KidSat, see https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/KidSat .

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/UCSD/JSC

Image Addition Date:
2008-09-04