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Crew Earth Observations (CEO) taken during Expedition 8
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ISS008-E-18935 (24 March 2004) --- This photo of a large black smoke plume from an oil fire was taken by an Expedition 8 crewmember on the International Space Station as the Station orbited northeastward across Saudi Arabia. According to a front-page story in the New York Times, an oil pipeline near the channel of Shatt al Arab in southeastern Iraq on the Persian Gulf ruptured the day before.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineCrew Earth Observations (CEO) taken during Expedition 8. NASA/JSC, 2004-03-24. Public domain. ID: iss008e18935.
