Astronaut Shane Kimbrough captured from ISS Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, U.S.
The Bighorn Basin is a plateau region and intermontane basin, approximately 160km wide, in north-central Wyoming. It is bounded by the Absaroka Range on the west, the Pryor Mountains on the north, the Bighorn Mountains on the east, and the Owl Creek Mountains and Bridger Mountains on the south. It is drained to the north by tributaries of the Bighorn River, which enters the basin from the south. The region is semi-arid, receiving only 15-25 cm of rain annually. The Bighorn Basin forms a geologic structural basin filled with more than 6,100m of sedimentary rocks from Cambrian to Miocene in age. Since the early 20th century the basin has been a significant source of petroleum, and has produced more than 1.4 billion barrels of oil.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Shane Kimbrough’s Tweet
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