Photo #: ISS007-E-6305 Date: Jun. 2003Geographic Region: DEM. REP. OF CONGO
Feature: CONGO RIVER, BRAZZAVILLE, KINSHASA
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Photo #: ISS007-E-6305 Date: Jun. 2003 Geographic Region: DEM. REP. OF CONGO Feature: CONGO RIVER, BRAZZAVILLE, KINSHASA |
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| Kinshasa and Brazzaville: This image, taken from the International Space Station on June 6, 2003, shows two capital cities on opposite banks of the Congo River. The smaller city is Brazzaville on the north side of the river, and Kinshasa on the south side. The cities lie at the downstream end of an almost circular widening in the river known as Stanley Pool. The international boundary follows the south shore of the pool (roughly 30 km in diameter). The Republic of the Congo, originally a French colony, is sometimes called Congo-Brazzaville--as opposed to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (known from 1971 to 1999 as Zaire) which is often called Congo-Kinshasa, originally a Belgian colony. Brazzaville has a population of 600,000, compared with Kinshasa's 6.8 million. Kinshasa's population has more than doubled in 20 years--2.7 million in 1984 and 6.8 million in 2004. Kinshasa is thus now far larger than the entire Congo-Brazzaville republic, which has a population of almost 3 million. There is no bridge between the cities so that water craft of many kinds ply between them. It is not uncommon to see dugout canoes being paddled between the cities. The Congo River drains the vast equatorial Congo Basin, and discharges 35,000-40,000 cubic meters per second of water at Stanley Pool (by comparison, the Nile River discharges 2,500-3,500 cubic meters per second at Aswan). The Congo River exits the pool through a markedly narrowed channel at a series of whitewater rapids that can be seen in this view from space. |
| Images: | All Available Images Low-Resolution 85k |
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| Mission: | ISS007 |
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| Roll - Frame: | E - 6305 |
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| Geographical Name: | DEM. REP. OF CONGO |
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| Features: | CONGO RIVER, BRAZZAVILLE, KINSHASA |
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| Center Lat x Lon: | 4.5S x 15.5E |
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| Film Exposure: | N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus |
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| Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: | 10 |
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| Camera:: | E4 |
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| Camera Tilt: | 26 | LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical |
| Camera Focal Length: | 180 |
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| Nadir to Photo Center Direction: | SE | 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 |
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| Orbit Number: | 1932 |
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| Date: | 20030606 | YYYYMMDD |
| Time: | 105110 | GMT HHMMSS |
| Nadir Lat: | 3S |
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
| Nadir Lon: | 14.6E |
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
| Sun Azimuth: | 5 | Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point |
| Space Craft Altitude: | 213 | nautical miles |
| Sun Elevation: | 64 | Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point |
| Land Views: | BASIN |
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| Water Views: | CHANNEL, RIVER |
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| Atmosphere Views: | |
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| Man Made Views: | BRIDGE |
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| City Views: | BRAZZAVILLE, KINSHASA |
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