[:ja]デービッド・サンジャック宇宙飛行士がISSから撮影したアルジェリアのタッシリナジェール国立公園です。
タッシリ・ナジェールは、アルジェリア南東部、サハラ砂漠にある500kmにわたり拡がる台地状の山脈です（最高点は標高2158mAdrar Afao）。台地を侵食した渓谷には糸杉が点在し、考古学的な景観も含んでいることから、「タッシリ・ナジェール国立公園」として国立公園、生物圏保護区、ラムサール条約登録地に指定されており、ユネスコの世界遺産にも登録されています。山脈はほとんどが砂岩で形成されています。山脈はまた、先史的な岩絵群や他の考古学的景観で知られています。それらは、一帯が砂漠でなくサバンナに恵まれ湿潤だった新石器時代に遡るもので、岩絵には、牛の群れ、ワニなどの大型生物、狩猟や舞踏といった人々の活動などが活写されています。
地上の様子はこちらです。
参考文献： David Saint-Jacques’s Tweet
地球俯瞰画像を見る： LiVEARTH
[Earthview Wonders] No.953: Tasili n Ajjer, Algeria🇩🇿
Astronaut David Saint-Jacques captured from ISS Tasili n Ajjer, Algeria.
Tassili n’Ajjer is a UNESCO’s World Heritage national park in the Sahara desert, located on a vast plateau in south-east Algeria. The rock formation is an archaeological site, noted for its numerous prehistoric parietal works of rock art, first reported in 1910, that date to the early Neolithic era at the end of the last glacial period during which the Sahara was a habitable savanna rather than the current desert. Among the 15,000 engravings so far identified depicted are large wild animals including antelopes and crocodiles, cattle herds and humans that engage in activities such as hunting and dancing.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: David Saint-Jacques’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:en][Earthview Wonders] No.953: Tasili n Ajjer, Algeria🇩🇿
Astronaut David Saint-Jacques captured from ISS Tasili n Ajjer, Algeria.
Tassili n’Ajjer is a UNESCO’s World Heritage national park in the Sahara desert, located on a vast plateau in south-east Algeria. The rock formation is an archaeological site, noted for its numerous prehistoric parietal works of rock art, first reported in 1910, that date to the early Neolithic era at the end of the last glacial period during which the Sahara was a habitable savanna rather than the current desert. Among the 15,000 engravings so far identified depicted are large wild animals including antelopes and crocodiles, cattle herds and humans that engage in activities such as hunting and dancing.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: David Saint-Jacques’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:]