[:ja]ジェシカ・メイヤー宇宙飛行士がISSから撮影したエジプトのシナイ半島です。
ナイル川デルタは東西240kmにわたり広がる世界最大級の三角州で、肥沃な土壌を生んでいます。アレクサンドリアからポートサイドにかけ、首都カイロから少し下ったところから始まります。河口まで160kmですが、その間の高低差は16mしかありません。画像中のシナイ半島は、ユダヤ教、キリスト教、イスラム教では旧約聖書の時代から特別な場所。出エジプト記でモーセがユダヤ人を率いてシナイ半島へ渡り、シナイ山で十戒を授かったと伝えられています。
地上の様子はこちらです。
参考文献： Jessica Meir’s Tweet
地球俯瞰画像を見る： LiVEARTH
[Earthview Wonders] No.905: Sinai Peninsula
Astronaut Jessica Meir captured from ISS Sinai Peninsula, Egypt.
The Nile Delta is where the Nile River spreads out and drains into the Mediterranean Sea. It is one of the world’s largest river deltas, from Alexandria in the west to Port Said in the east, it covers 240km of Mediterranean coastline, and is a rich agricultural region. While Sinai Peninsula has been religiously and historically exceptional for Jews, Christians and Muslims from the Old Testament days, so much blood was shed and even today the Sinai witnesses turmoil from Israel-Palestine conflict.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Jessica Meir’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:en][Earthview Wonders] No.905: Sinai Peninsula
Astronaut Jessica Meir captured from ISS Sinai Peninsula, Egypt.
The Nile Delta is where the Nile River spreads out and drains into the Mediterranean Sea. It is one of the world’s largest river deltas, from Alexandria in the west to Port Said in the east, it covers 240km of Mediterranean coastline, and is a rich agricultural region. While Sinai Peninsula has been religiously and historically exceptional for Jews, Christians and Muslims from the Old Testament days, so much blood was shed and even today the Sinai witnesses turmoil from Israel-Palestine conflict.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Jessica Meir’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:]