Home >>	Advanced Search >>

Astronaut Photography of Earth - Display Record

NM23-745-116

Low-resolution Browse Image

(Most browse images are not color adjusted.)

Images

Conditions for Use of Images >>
Image Transformation Tutorial >> Saving, Color Adjusting, and Printing Images >>

Images to View on Your Computer Now

	File Name	File Size (bytes)	Width	Height	Annotated	Cropped	Purpose	Comments
View	NM23-745-116.JPG	99256	540	540	Yes	Yes	NASA's Earth Observatory web site
View	NM23-745-116_2.JPG	564861	990	1000	No	No	NASA's Earth Observatory web site	color corrected
View	NM23-745-116.JPG	589513	540	617	Yes	Yes	NASA's Earth Observatory web site
View	NM23-745-116.JPG	1484870	1000	959	No	No	NASA's Earth Observatory web site
View	NM23-745-116.TIF	50876028	4096	4139	No	No	NASA's Earth Observatory web site
View	NM23-745-116.JPG	669529	628	630	No	No

Download a Keyhole Markup Language (KML) file for use in Google Earth.

Electronic Image Data

Camera files only apply to electronic still cameras.
No sound file available.

Identification

Mission: NM23 Roll: 745 Frame: 116 Mission ID on the Film or image: NM23
Country or Geographic Name: UKRAINE
Features: CHERNOBYL, PRIPYAT RIVER
Center Point Latitude: 51.0 Center Point Longitude: 30.0 (Negative numbers indicate south for latitude and west for longitude)
Stereo: Yes (Yes indicates there is an adjacent picture of the same area)
ONC Map ID: E-03 JNC Map ID: 9

Camera

Camera Tilt: 50
Camera Focal Length: 250mm
Camera: HB: Hasselblad
Film: 5046 : Kodak, natural color positive, Lumiere 100/5046, ASA 100, standard base.

Quality

Film Exposure: Normal
Percentage of Cloud Cover: 10 (0-10)

Nadir

Date: 19970427 (YYYYMMDD)GMT Time: 120020 (HHMMSS)
Nadir Point Latitude: 51.5, Longitude: 25.8 (Negative numbers indicate south for latitude and west for longitude)
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: East
Sun Azimuth: 219 (Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point)
Spacecraft Altitude: 210 nautical miles (389 km)
Sun Elevation Angle: 47 (Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point)
Orbit Number: 999

Captions

Chernobyl, Ukraine:
Eighteen years ago, on April 26 1986, the world’s worst nuclear power accident occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the Ukrainian-Belarus border. Toxic radionuclides like Cs137 and Sr90 contaminated an area of 155,000 square kilometers in what is today Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed, sickened from radiation-induced illnesses, or resettled to uncontaminated land.

Today, the immediate area remains off limits to humans. The plant was permanently closed in 2000. The surrounding agricultural land has been abandoned, and the two nearby towns (Pripyat to the north and Chernobyl to the south) where plant workers lived are largely ghost towns. Instead of people, abundant wildlife—packs of wolves, deer, and birds—roam and live near Chernobyl.

This image, taken seven years ago from the Russian Mir spacecraft shows Chernobyl and the surrounding countryside. The power plant is situated on the northwest end of a cooling pond on the Pripyat River, which flows into the Dnepr River just 80 miles north of Kiev. The main features visible in the image are the massive concrete dams and levees that were constructed to contain elements of the power plant and prevent contaminated runoff from entering the local streams. The cooling water canals leading to the pond, and the levees in the middle of the pond that channeled the water circulation can also be seen. The darker green regions are forests and the light green areas are cleared land used for agriculture.

links:
USGS Earthshots: Chernobyl

Download Packaged File.
This option downloads the following items, packaged into a single file, if they are available:

Browse image
Cataloged information with captions
Camera file
Sound file

Search the Astronaut Photography Database

Server: 2

This service is provided by the International Space Station program.