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English: Bering strait, image taken by MISR satellite.

With the Seward Peninsula of Alaska to the east, and Chukotskiy Poluostrovof Siberia to the west, the Bering Strait separates the United States and the Russian Federation by only 90 kilometers. It is named for Danish explorer Vitus Bering, who spotted the Alaskan mainland in 1741 while leading an expedition of Russian sailors. This view of the region was captured by MISR's vertical-viewing (nadir) camera on August 18, 2000 during Terra orbit 3562.

The boundary between the US and Russia lies between Big and Little Diomede Islands, which are visible in the middle of the Bering Strait. The Arctic Circle, at 66.5 degrees north latitude, runs through the Arctic Ocean in the top part of this image. This circle marks the southernmost latitude for which the Sun does not rise above the horizon on the day of the winter solstice. At the bottom of this image is St. Lawrence Island. Situated in the Bering Sea, it is part of Alaska and home to Yupik Eskimos.

MISR was built and is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, for NASA's Office of Earth Science, Washington, DC. The Terra satellite is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology. For more information: http://www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov
Español: Estrecho de Bering
Français : Le détroit de Béring et les îles Diomède, entre les Etats-Unis (à gauche) et la Russie (à droite). La partie supérieure de l'image montre l'Océan arctique. Dans la partie inférieure de l'image se trouve l'île Saint-Laurent. Photographie prise par le satellite MISR le 18 août 2000. MISR est un satellite construit et dirigé par le Jet Propulsion Laboratory, un laboratoire de la NASA (l'agence spatiale américaine) installé à Pasadena. Il sert aux projets de recherche de l'Office of Earth Science de la NASA basé à Washington, D.C.
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Source http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02638
Author NASA/GSFC/JPL/MISR-Team
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