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Astronaut Photography of Earth - Display RecordISS014-E-10499Low-resolution Browse Image(Most browse images are not color adjusted.)ImagesConditions for Use of Images >>Image Transformation Tutorial >> Saving, Color Adjusting, and Printing Images >> Images to View on Your Computer Now
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Download a Keyhole Markup Language (KML) file for use in Google Earth. Electronic Image DataCamera Files >> No sound file available.IdentificationMission: ISS014 Roll: E Frame: 10499 Mission ID on the Film or image: ISS014Country or Geographic Name: BRAZIL Features: STRANDPLAIN,AIRPORT,CARAVELAS Center Point Latitude: -17.7 Center Point Longitude: -39.2 (Negative numbers indicate south for latitude and west for longitude) Stereo: (Yes indicates there is an adjacent picture of the same area) ONC Map ID: JNC Map ID: CameraCamera Tilt: 22Camera Focal Length: 400mm Camera: E4: Kodak DCS760C Electronic Still Camera Film: 3060E : 3060 x 2036 pixel CCD, RGBG array. QualityFilm Exposure:Percentage of Cloud Cover: 10 (0-10) NadirDate: 20061223 (YYYYMMDD)GMT Time: 145725 (HHMMSS)Nadir Point Latitude: -18.1, Longitude: -40.3 (Negative numbers indicate south for latitude and west for longitude) Nadir to Photo Center Direction: East Sun Azimuth: 215 (Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point) Spacecraft Altitude: 178 nautical miles (330 km) Sun Elevation Angle: 83 (Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point) Orbit Number: 2304 CaptionsCaravelas Strandplain, Bahia Province, BrazilThis astronaut photograph highlights an ancient shoreline, or strandplain, on the coast of Brazil. The image is dominated by numerous fine, parallel lines (trending diagonally from upper left to lower right), each of which is an ancient shoreline made up of sand transported from rivers to the north. The strandplain grew as the narrow shorelines accumulated line by line, in their dozens or even hundreds, over thousands of years. The shorelines group into “packets” with different orientations (outlined in white) that indicate their relative ages. Younger packets cut into or overlie older packets. Based on those relationships, the packet nearest the coast (farthest right) is the youngest, while the packet north of the city of Caravelas is the oldest (image bottom). The Caravelas River flows into the Atlantic Ocean at the bottom of the view. Sediment from this river and the current shoreline produces the light browns and dun colors visible offshore. On the day the astronaut took this image, the river water was relatively clear; clear water (gray) flows out of the main river mouth and also off to one side to the south, over a levee. The Caravelas airport appears near the middle of the view, and is built on one of the ancient shoreline packets. Caravelas itself, a fishing town of about 20,000 residents, lies on an estuary and was once a flourishing whaling center—the prominent cape at image top right is known as Ponta da Baleia (Whale Point). Download Packaged File. This option downloads the following items, packaged into a single file, if they are available:
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