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PHOTOGRAPHY: Central Himalayas from space

Somebody found this NASA photo taken from the International Space Station (roughly 225 miles above earth) of the Annapurna-Dhaulagiri region, and identified the peaks and marked their elevations in meters. This area is in central Nepal, about halfway between the Karakoram’s cluster of high peaks, to the west, and the Mount Everest massif to the east, and contains two of the world’s ten highest mountains. (Click on image to enlarge)

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