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Figure 5.6
The first photo from the Shuttle-Mir program to visibly portray early El Niņo impacts was taken during the STS-86 mission in September 1997, as Dave Wolf was exchanging places with Mike Foale (NASA ESC image S86E5087). The Electronic Still Camera on the Shuttle, controlled by middle school students involved in the KidSat project (KidSat, 1997), was used to create a photomosaic of the smoke pall covering southern Sumatra. This is one of these images showing a corner of the smoke pall covering the southern tip of Sumatra. The white arrows mark some of the individual smoke plumes, the dark arrow points to dense smoke with gravity waves, which could be mistaken for cloud. The graph shows the regional precipitation deviations due to El Niņo. The cumulative observed precipitation is given by the heavy solid line, and normal precipitation (cumulative) is depicted by the thin dashed line. The bar indicates when the photo was taken. (Modified from the Climate Prediction Center, 1998.)

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