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Glaciers in the Himalayan Mountains taken from Atlantis during STS-106
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STS106-705-009 (8-20 September 2000) --- One of the STS-106 crew members on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis used a handheld 70mm camera to photograph this image of Qogir Feng (8,611 meters), which appears at the far upper left in this view of the northwestern Karakoram Range. Also called K2 or Mt. Godwin Austen, the mountain is the second highest peak in the world. The Tarim sedimentary basin borders the range on the north and the Lesser Himalayas on the south.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineGlaciers in the Himalayan Mountains taken from Atlantis during STS-106. NASA/JSC, 2000-09-16. Public domain. ID: STS106-705-009.
