The Great Lakes | International Space Station

NASA Astronaut Ricky Arnold: "The Great Lakes looking grand on a clear spring day."

The Great Lakes, also called the Laurentian Great Lakes and the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes located primarily in the upper mid-east region of North America, on the Canada–United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River. They consist of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron (or Michigan–Huron), Erie, and Ontario. The Great Lakes is the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by total area, and second largest by total volume containing 21% of the world's surface fresh water by volume. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Image Credit: U.S. Astronaut Ricky Arnold/NASA/JSC
Release Date: May 16, 2018

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