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This image or video was catalogued by Johnson Space Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: ISS045-E-028798. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work.
English: This Envisat image features one of the natural wonders of the world – the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea off the east coast of Queensland, Australia. Australian researchers have discovered that Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) sensor can detect coral bleaching down to 10 m deep.
The Great Barrier Reef has long been known to and used by the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and is an important part of local groups' cultures and spirituality. [citation needed] [clarification needed] The first European to sight the Great Barrier Reef was James Cook in 1770, who sailed and mapped the east coast of ...
Every year, the International Space Station produces some of the world's best photography. Astronauts tend to be technically skilled with a camera, yes. Many of them are engineers, after all.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 December 2024. Inhabited space station in low Earth orbit (1998–present) "ISS" redirects here. For other uses, see ISS (disambiguation). International Space Station (ISS) Oblique underside view in November 2021 International Space Station programme emblem with flags of the original signatory states ...
During that time, between 2016 and 2024, the Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem and one of the most biodiverse, suffered mass coral bleaching events.
The NASA ICON team unexpectedly lost contact with the spacecraft on 25 November 2022. A fail-safe system, designed to reset the spacecraft computer after 8 days with no receipt of commands from the ground, failed to restore communications after it elapsed on 5 December 2022. [21] On 24 July 2024, NASA formally declared that the mission had ...
Satellite View of Saumarez Reefs (center) and the Swains reef (Left part of the Great Barrier Reef) and Frederick Reefs (right) Satellite view of Saumarez Reefs The Saumarez Reefs are located on the Coral Sea Shelf, 330 km North East of Gladstone, Queensland and are thus one of the closer coral sea islands as they are only located 85 km to the east of the Great Barrier Reef Swain Reefs and 95 ...