NASA Photo ID: S90-55755           File Name: 10063802.jpg
  Film Type: 4x5                     Date Taken: 12/31/90
  Title: Earth observation (Australia) taken by Galileo spacecraft
  Description:
  Earth observation of Australia was taken by Galileo Spacecraft after 
  completing its first Earth Gravity Assist.  Color image of the Simpson
  Desert  in Australia was obtained by Galileo at about 2:30 pm Pacific
  Standard Time  (PST), 12-08-90, at a range of more than 35,000 miles.  The
  color composite  was made from images taken through the red, green, and
  violet filters. The  area shown, about 280 miles wide by about 340 miles
  north-to-south, is  southeast of Alice Springs.  At lower left is Lake
  Eyre, a salt lake below  sea level, subject to seasonal water-level
  fluctuations; when this image was  acquired the lake was nearly dry.  At
  lower right is the greenish Lake  Blanche.  Fields of linear sand dunes
  stretch north and east of Lake Eyre,  shaped by prevailing winds from the
  south and showing, in different colors,  the various sources and/or ages of
  their sands.  Photo provided by Jet  Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) with
  alternate number P-37331, 12-19-90.         
  Subject terms:
  AUSTRALIA                               
  EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FROM SPACE)         
  FLYBY MISSIONS                          
  GALILEO SPACECRAFT                      
  

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