English: The western and central parts of Crete appear surrounded by quicksilver in this astronaut photograph taken from the
International Space Station. This phenomenon is known as
sunglint, caused by
light reflecting off of the sea surface directly toward the observer. The point of maximum reflectance is visible as a bright
white region to the north-west of the island. Surface currents causing variations in the degree of reflectance are visible near the south-western shoreline of Crete and the smaller island of
Gavdos (image lower left).
Image acquired with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 48 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.
The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the
Soviet/
Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain.
The
SOHO (ESA & NASA) joint project implies that all materials created by its probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use.
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{{Information |Description ={{en|1=The western and central parts of Crete appear surrounded by quicksilver in this astronaut photograph taken from the
International Space Station. This phenomenon is known as
sunglint, caused
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