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Gemini 4 photograph looking southeast over the Hadramawt Plateau, composed of gently dipping marine sediments in southern Yemen. The dendritic pattern in the foreground is Wadi Hadramawt, a dry river channel and tributories, which eventually joins the Gulf of Aden, in the background. (Gemini 4, S65-34658 )
Last Update: 2004-Nov-28