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  Image: Geographic Location Direction Photo #: ISS010-E-5072 Date: Oct. 2004
Geographic Region: ARGENTINA
Feature: IBERA SWAMP, LAKES, ROAD, GLINT

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  Ibera Swamp Topography, NE Argentina

The central lake in this astronaut photograph is one of hundreds in the Ibera swamplands that were formed by South America's second largest river, the Parana. Although this great river now lies 120 kilometers to the north of this area today, its channel has swung over a great "inland delta" in the recent geological past.

This and other lakes were captured by the astronaut in the camera's sunglint region (the area where the Sun reflects directly back toward the camera ) as the International Space Station passed over this remote but vast swampland in northeast Argentina. The glint pattern gives the lakes a slivery appearance, and shows winds ruffling the water surfaces. The lakes in this image lie within side channels of the Parana that formed when the river flowed through the region from the northeast. The center coordinates of this enhanced image are 28.7degS 58.4degW. The central lake in the image is about 2 km long.

Forest, swamp, and prairie vegetation outline the low topography which consists of lakes, low swells, and depressions. The rounded shape of the topography probably relates to the effects of wind. Evidence from areas both north and south of the swamps suggests that these parts of South America were climatically drier during several periods in the last couple of million years (while North America and Europe were experiencing glaciations). Aridity allows the effects of wind to become pronounced. Wind builds elliptical sand dunes and scours out rounded depressions. Wind also generates waves on lakes that smooth sandy and muddy lake shores.

 
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Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 275k
Mission: ISS010  
Roll - Frame: E - 5072
Geographical Name: ARGENTINA  
Features: IBERA SWAMP, LAKES, ROAD, GLINT  
Center Lat x Lon: 28.7S x 58.4W
Film Exposure:   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 10
 
Camera: E4
 
Camera Tilt: 2   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 800  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: W   The direction from the nadir to the center point, N=North, S=South, E=East, W=West
Stereo?:   Y=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't
Orbit Number: 1881  
 
Date: 20041025   YYYYMMDD
Time: 163712   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 28.7S  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 58.3W  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 316   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 195   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 69   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: FOREST  
Water Views: CHANNEL, DELTA, LAKE, RIVER, SUNGLINT, SWAMP  
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