Astronaut Ivan Vagner captured from ISS Grand Canyon, U.S.

Credit: Ivan Vagner, Roscosmos

The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, U.S. Nearly 2w billion years of Earth’s geological history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. The Pueblo people considered the Grand Canyon a holy site, and made pilgrimages to it.

The local scenery on the ground is as follows.

Credit: Wikipedia
Credit: Wikipedia

Reference: Ivan Vagner’s Tweet
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