Astronaut Matthew Dominick captured from ISS Nile River, Egypt at night.
The Nile River is 6695km long and is the longest in the world. The Nile has 2 major tributaries, the White Nile originating in Rwanda and Brundi, and the Blue Nile begins at lake Tana in Ethiopia. These two rivers merge at Khartoum, Sudan. The Sahara is the largest hot desert and the third largest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic. Its area of 10 million km2 is comparable to the area of China or the United States.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Matthew Dominick’s Tweet
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