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			Photo #: ISS039-E-9160 Date: Apr. 2014 Geographic Region: RUSSIAN FEDERATION Feature: AURORA BOREALIS, MOON, MOSCOW AT NIGHT



	Night colors--Aurora Borealis, the Moon, and Moscow at night A thin green line of the aurora borealis crosses the top of this image taken from the International Space Station s. The moon appears as a white disc just above the aurora. Airglow appears as a blue-white cusp on the Earth's limb. Russia's capital city Moscow makes a splash of yellow lower left, with its easily recognized radial pattern of highways. Other cities are Nizhni Novgorod (image lower center) 400 km from Moscow, St. Petersburg (image left) 625 km from Moscow, and Finland's capital city Helsinki.

Images:	All Available Images Low-Resolution 172k
Mission:	ISS039
Roll - Frame:	E - 9160
Geographical Name:	RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Features:	AURORA BOREALIS, MOON, MOSCOW AT NIGHT
Center Lat x Lon:	58.5N x 43.0E
Film Exposure:		N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP:	0
Camera:	N5
Camera Tilt:	HO	LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length:	31
Nadir to Photo Center Direction:	NW	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:	20140402	YYYYMMDD
Time:	210627	GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat:	51.5N	Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon:	47.0E	Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth:	3	Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude:	220	nautical miles
Sun Elevation:	-33	Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views:	MOON
Water Views:
Atmosphere Views:	AURORA
Man Made Views:
City Views:	HELSINKI, MOSCOW, ST. PETERSBURG

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