On Oct. 18, 2021, NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough took this photograph of the area east of Salinas Valley in Central California, including Pinnacles National Park. The region was set aside as a U.S. national monument on Jan. 16, 1908, and redesignated as a national park in 2013.
On Oct. 18, 2021, NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough took this photograph of the area east of Salinas Valley in Central California, including Pinnacles National Park. The region was set aside as a U.S. national monument on Jan. 16, 1908, and redesignated as a national park in 2013. Kimbrough was living and working on the International Space Station as a member of the Expedition 65 crew. The edge of a solar array on Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft is visible in the lower left corner of the frame.
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