English: The Air mountain range in north-central Niger, Africa on Earth

Earth Gemini 6 photograph of the Air mountain range in north-central Niger, Africa, on the Earth. This mountain range is in the Sahara desert. The dark circular areas are plateaus of resistant masses of granite, intruded as ring complexes. The curved feature cutting the plateau on the right is a gabbroic ring dike. A volcanic crater can be seen at the lower left. The image is approximately 130 km (80 miles) across. (Gemini 6A, S65-63158) Location & Time Information Date/Time (UT): 1965-12-16 T 10:52 Distance/Range (km): 283 Central Latitude/Longitude (deg): N/A Orbit(s): 14

Imaging Information Area or Feature Type: mountain, desert Instrument: Hasselblad 500-c, 70-mm camera Instrument Resolution (pixels): N/A Instrument Field of View (deg): 26.5 x 26.5 Filter: haze Illumination Incidence Angle (deg): N/A Phase Angle (deg): N/A Instrument Look Direction: N/A Surface Emission Angle (deg): N/A

Ordering Information CD-ROM Volume: N/A NASA Image ID number: S65-63158 Other Image ID number: N/A NSSDC Data Set ID (Photo): 65-104A-01A NSSDC Data Set ID (CD): N/A

Other ID: S65-64944 (b&w)