Cape Town, Republic of South Africa
Orbit 33270 (ascending) Frame 4293, 31 August 2001 08:38 GMT
Southwestern coast of South Africa, with the Table Bay and Cape Town's peculiar,
widespread urban texture, very visible in the upper left.
In the Bay, full of ships, the harbour piers can be detected.
Immediately down the coast, to the left: the two quarters of Green Point and Sea Point, with
the well-known Table Mountain alongside.
Bottom left: the promontory leading to the Cape of Good Hope.
Bottom right: the False Bay.
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Keywords: ESA European
Space Agency - Agence spatiale europeenne,
observation de la terre, earth observation,
satellite remote sensing,
teledetection, geophysique, altimetrie, radar,
chimique atmospherique, geophysics, altimetry, radar,
atmospheric chemistry
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