NASA goofs up

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Published: Monday 31 December 2012

The mountain, claimed by NASA to be Everest, is actually Saser Muztagh in the Karakoram Range of Kashmir The US space agency NASA has admitted it mistook a mountain in India for Mount Everest when it posted online a picture taken from space.

NASA initially said the photograph taken by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko showed the world’s tallest summit.

The image was picked up by a number of media outlets, but NASA removed it after a Nepalese expert spotted the error. “It is not Everest. It is Saser Muztagh in the Karakoram Range of the Kashmir region,” a NASA spokesperson told BBC. The spokesperson, however, did not explain how the photograph from the space station had been wrongly identified.

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