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PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109.
TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
PHOTO CAPTION GALILEO
December 22, 1992 P-41474
TOP GLL/EM22
This color image of North-East Africa and Arabia was taken from
an altitude of about 500,000 kilometers (300,000 miles) by the
Galileo spacecraft on December 9, 1992, as it left the Earth enroute
to Jupiter. Most of Egypt (center left) including the Nile
Valley, the Red Sea (slightly above center), Israel, Jordan, and
the Arabian peninsula are cloud-free. In the center, below the
cloud on the coast, is Khartoum, at the confluence of the Blue
Nile and the White Nile. Somalia (lower right) is partly cloud-
covered. The Galileo project, whose primary mission is the
exploration of the Jupiter system in 1995-97, is managed for
NASAy's Office of Space Science and Applications by the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory.
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