Sinai Peninsula seen by the shuttle Atlantis - Sinai Peninsula seen from space - The...

Sinai Peninsula seen by the shuttle Atlantis - Sinai Peninsula seen from space - The Sinai Peninsula seen by the shuttle Atlantis in October 2002. The Suez Canal is visible at the bottom right of the image. Egypt's triangular Sinai Peninsula lies in the center of this view, photographed from the Space Shuttle Atlantis, with the dark greens of the Nile delta lower right. In this southwesterly view, the Red Sea, with its characteristic parallel coastlines, stretches toward the top. At the bottom of the image, the Suez Canal appears as an irregular line joining the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea (lower left). The Dead Sea in central Israel, with its light blue salt ponds at the south end, appears on the left margin. October 200