The Ganges River Delta in South Asia | International Space Station

The Ganges River Delta in South Asia | International Space Station

This was photographed in the near-infrared from the International Space Station by NASA astronaut Don Pettit during his Expedition 71/72 Mission (2024-2025). The Ganges Delta (also known the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, the Sundarbans Delta or the Bengal Delta) is a river delta largely covering the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, consisting of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the world's largest river delta and it empties into the Bay of Bengal with the combined waters of several river systems, mainly those of the Brahmaputra River and the Ganges River. It is also one of the most fertile regions in the world, thus earning the nickname the Green Delta. The delta stretches from the Hooghly River in the west as far as the Meghna River in the east.

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Station Commander: JAXA Flight Engineer Takuya Onishi
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Kirill Peskov, Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritskiy

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Image Credit: NASA/JSC/D. Pettit

Release Date: July 16, 2025

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