The US space agency (NASA) has released a unique photo of Mount Everest, taken by an astronaut when the International Space Station (ISS) was almost vertically above Earth's highest mountain.
The famous peak, at about 8,848 metres above sea level, is located on the Chinghai-Tibet Plateau, a region known as The Roof of the World. Mount Everest continues to[BR]rise at a rate of about one centimetre each year as the crust of the planet beneath the mountain progressively rises due to the convergence of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates.
The stunning photo of Mount Everest from such an unusual angle was taken with a Nikon D5 digital camera and subsequently enhanced by NASA.
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