About this wallpaper
AST-30-2601 (20 July 1975) --- An area of the Cascade Mountains southeast of Seattle in the State of Washington, as photographed from the Apollo spacecraft in Earth orbit during the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission. The view includes Snoqualmie Pass, Cle Elum Lake, Kachess Lake and Keechelus Lake. The picture was taken at an altitude of 228 kilometers (141 statute miles) with a 70mm Hasselblad camera using medium-speed Ektachrome QX-807 type film.
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- Profile or tile artwork, and displays close to a 1:1 or 5:4 shape.
- Desktops where you are happy to crop a little from the top and bottom.
- 4K monitors and TVs at native resolution; it also scales down cleanly to QHD and Full HD.
- Any other screen size: the Crop & Scale tool on this page exports the image at a custom resolution.
Resolution and display compatibility
This image is 4096 × 4116 pixels (≈1:1). The table shows what happens when it is scaled to fill common screens, calculated from those dimensions.
| Display | Resolution | Sharpness | Framing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full HD (1080p) | 1920 × 1080 | Sharp: scaled down to 47% of the original | Crops about 44% from the top and bottom |
| QHD (1440p) | 2560 × 1440 | Sharp: scaled down to 63% of the original | Crops about 44% from the top and bottom |
| 4K UHD | 3840 × 2160 | Sharp: scaled down to 94% of the original | Crops about 44% from the top and bottom |
| 16:10 laptop (WUXGA) | 1920 × 1200 | Sharp: scaled down to 47% of the original | Crops about 38% from the top and bottom |
| 16:10 QHD+ | 2560 × 1600 | Sharp: scaled down to 63% of the original | Crops about 38% from the top and bottom |
| Ultrawide QHD (21:9) | 3440 × 1440 | Sharp: scaled down to 84% of the original | Crops about 58% from the top and bottom |
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Source and license
- Author: NASA JSC.
- Source: not specified for this wallpaper.
- License: Public domain (NASA) ↗
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