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LOCATION Direction Photo #: ISS008-E-7600 Date: Dec. 2003
Geographic Region: RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Feature: LAKE TELETSKOYE


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Lake Teletskoye, Russia

Lake Teletskoye, one of Siberia's prime tourist destinations, is a large lake that is nestled in a narrow valley between the snow-capped Al-tyntu (west, at top) and Korbu (east, at bottom) mountain ridges of the Altai Mountains. The lake is nearly 80 kilometers long by 5 kilometers wide and 325 meters deep; it is one of the deepest lakes in the world.

But Lake Teletskoye is more than a large, deep lake. It is located within the 9,000 km2 Altaisky Zapovednik nature reserve, which helps protect its unspoiled waters. The main flow into the lake is the Tchulyshman River, but approximately 70 rivers and hundreds of seasonal streams also flow into the lake. The lake water drains and ultimately flows north to become one of Siberia's great rivers, the Ob. Surrounding the lake are ancient taiga forests. Large lakes such as Teletskoye serve as repositories of regional paleoclimate data including sediment records and atmospheric pollutants. Teletskoye is included as one of Russia's long-term ecological monitoring sites.




Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 150k
Mission: ISS008  
Roll - Frame: E - 7600
Geographical Name: RUSSIAN FEDERATION  
Features: LAKE TELETSKOYE  
Center Lat x Lon: 51.5N x 87.5E
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: 26   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 155  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: E   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: 854  
 
Date: 20031210   YYYYMMDD
Time: 082401   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 51.3N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 85.9E  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 211   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 199   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 10   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: MOUNTAIN, VALLEY  
Water Views: LAKE, RIVER, SEDIMENT  
Atmosphere Views:  
Man Made Views:  
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