Earth from space: image of the week

[Jacques van Oene]

The small island of San Salvador, its southern section seen here by ESA's
Proba microsatellite, is located midway down the Bahamas Archipelago. It has
a special historical significance as it is nowadays identified as the first
point Christopher Columbus made landfall in the New World.

Read more at:

http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMR1BVLWFE_index_0.html

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Jacques :-)

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