(1) About 700,000 gallons of crude oil spilled into Galveston Bay.

(2) Clear Lake, an inlet of Galveston Bay, is located to the immediate southeast of JSC.

(3) Other astronaut photographs also feature the Houston and Galveston Bay area, including images of Houston at Night and the Houston Ship Channel area.

(4) A body found last month in Galveston Bay is believed to be that of the little girl, Riley Ann Sawyers, though DNA tests are pending.

(5) Several boat wakes are visible in Galveston Bay (image right) due to disruption of the water surface that reduces the sunglint effect.

(6) Both Clear Lake and Galveston Bay appear silver-grey due to sunglint, or light reflected back towards the observer on the ISS that gives the water surface a mirror-like appearance.

(7) The southern oyster drill, also called a conch, has not been a threat in Galveston Bay for years.

(8) S. aerospace industry, and a deep-water port connected with Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico by the Houston Ship Channel. Houston is also the largest city in Texas. Population, 1,630,553.

(9) Rural and undeveloped land rings the metropolitan area, and Galveston Bay to the southeast (image lower right) provides access to the Gulf of Mexico.

(10) The city is bisected by muddy, sluggish bayous, some banked by concrete, others not, whose chief function is to drain rainwater into Galveston Bay.

(11) The city doesn't sit on a fine natural harbor like San Francisco but rather abuts upper Galveston Bay, 60 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico.

(12) A city of southeast Texas at the head of Galveston Bay on the Houston Ship Channel. It is an oil-refining and industrial center.

(13) A city of southeast Texas south-southeast of Houston on Galveston Island at the entrance to Galveston Bay, an arm of the Gulf of Mexico.