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IMAGE ADVISORYOctober 18, 2000

SHARM EL SHEIK, EGYPT: SITE OF MIDEAST SUMMIT

       The golf resort in Sharm El Sheik, where President Clinton met this week with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, stands out against the desert landscape in a satellite image taken by a NASA instrument. The image is available at:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/pictures/aster

       The image of the Red Sea coastal town was taken on August 25, 2000, by NASA's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER), one of several Earth-observing instruments aboard the Terra satellite.

More information about ASTER is available at:

http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/

       JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.

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