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  Image: Geographic Location Direction Photo #: ISS033-E-22759 Date: Nov. 2012
Geographic Region: CHINA
Feature: AGR. FIELDS UNDER SNOW, SONGHUA R.

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  Agricultural Fields Under Snow, Easternmost China

This astronaut photograph highlights many hundreds of rectangular fields on either side of a 36-km stretch of the braided Songhua River (image right). Some fields are easier to see than others due to the winter snow cover. The Songhua joins with the Amur R. about 40 km downstream, at the border with Russia's Far East. Numerous villages also appear as small gray polygons. Broad floodplains can be recognized on both sides of the river, occupied by fewer fields by almost no villages.

The town of Suibing stands out as a larger gray patch on the banks of the river. A significant 300 m-high hill south of the river throws midmorning shadows (image left). The region is one of the most heavily cultivated in northeastern China with corn, soybeans, and sorghum being major crops. The areas of varying whiteness of the snow cover may correlate with zones of different crops and forest cover (for example, on the hill in the center part of the image). The degree to which fallow fields are cleared of vegetation may also affect the apparent snow brightness.
 
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Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 269k
Mission: ISS033  
Roll - Frame: E - 22759
Geographical Name: CHINA  
Features: AGR. FIELDS UNDER SNOW, SONGHUA R.  
Center Lat x Lon: 47.1N x 131.6E
Film Exposure:   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 10
 
Camera: N5
 
Camera Tilt: 27   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 400  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: NE   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:  
 
Date: 20121118   YYYYMMDD
Time: 010111   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 46.0N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 130.0E  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 149   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 225   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 19   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: HILL  
Water Views: RIVER  
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