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			Photo #: STS068-269-7 Date: Oct. 1994 Geographic Region: RUSSIAN FEDERATION Feature: CITY OF KURGAN, TOBOL R.



	STS068-269-007 Kurgan, Russia October 1994 Kurgan, one of the oldest cities in Siberia, can be seen in this north-looking, low-oblique photograph. Situated in the valley of the Tobol River, Kurgan is a southwest Siberian rail junction on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. The city manufactures grain elevators, flour milling equipment, buses, chemical equipment, food products, and farm and road building machinery; it also has meat packing plants.

Images:	All Available Images Low-Resolution 149k
Mission:	STS068
Roll - Frame:	269 - 7
Geographical Name:	RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Features:	CITY OF KURGAN, TOBOL R.
Center Lat x Lon:	55.5N x 65.5E
Film Exposure:	N	N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP:	0
Camera:	HB
Camera Tilt:	21	LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length:	250
Nadir to Photo Center Direction:	W	The direction from the nadir to the center point, N=North, S=South, E=East, W=West
Stereo?:	N	Y=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't
Orbit Number:	62
Date:	19941004	YYYYMMDD
Time:	055605	GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat:	55.8N	Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon:	66.2E	Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth:	155	Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude:	117	nautical miles
Sun Elevation:	27	Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views:	PLAIN, FOREST
Water Views:	RIVER, LAKE, SWAMP
Atmosphere Views:
Man Made Views:	URBAN AREA, AIRPORT, AGRICULTURE
City Views:	KURGAN

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