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ARC-1990-AC91-2009
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Range : 35,000 miles plus. This color image of the Simpson Desert in Australia was obtained by the Galileo spacecraft at aboaut 2:30 pm PST. 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.
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Credit lineARC-1990-AC91-2009. NASA/ARC, 1990-12-08. Public domain. ID: ARC-1990-AC91-2009.
