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| STS-104 Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Debriefing with Crewmembers August 24, 2001 |
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STS104-721-44 Click the photo number to access all resolutions available and the database record. |
| Tibet: These lakes of the western Tibetan Plateau are aligned (E-W) along fault valleys of the Bangong suture zone, a continent-scale fault zone that records the collision of a continental block with Eurasia. That episode was an earlier version of the present-day impingement of the Indian continental block, which is creating the Himalayas and uplifting the Tibetan Plateau. Viewed in stereo, the faults and fractures that define the lake geometry are strikingly visible. The two icefields/glaciers are at elevations above 18,800 to 20,000 feet. The southernmost lake (bottom right) is Ulan Ul Hu; the westernmost large lake is Lixi Oidain Co. |
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