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LOCATION Direction Photo #: ISS048-E-2035 Date: Jun. 2016
Geographic Region: KAZAKHSTAN
Feature: PUBLIC INPUTS


 
Lake Balkhash Under the Moon

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) took this photograph while flying over Asia and looking southeast toward the horizon. Astronauts have unique opportunities to photograph Earth from various angles while orbiting in the thermosphere layer of Earth's upper atmosphere.

In the foreground we see Lake Balkhash in Kazakhstan. The main sources of water for the lake come from the Ili and Karatal (also Qaratal) Rivers. The Ili River Delta is a megafan deposit that forms a conical shape along the shores of Lake Balkhash. The cloud-covered Tian Shan Mountains of northwest China feed snowmelt waters to the Ili River and Lake Balkhash.

Set against the darkness of space, the Moon appears to hover over the landscape. Astronauts on the ISS see the same lunar phases as we do on the ground. The steep color gradient in the upper third of the photo marks the edge of Earth's atmosphere and is known as the limb. The Moon does not have a gradually darkening limb because it lacks an atmosphere; the lunar limb appears simply as a sharp demarcation between the surface and the darkness of space.




Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 550k
Mission: ISS048  
Roll - Frame: E - 2035
Geographical Name: KAZAKHSTAN  
Features: PUBLIC INPUTS  
Center Lat x Lon: 45.7N x 76.3E
Film Exposure:   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 75
 
Camera:: N6
 
Camera Tilt: HO   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 116  
 
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:  
 
Date: 20160619   YYYYMMDD
Time: 125405   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 48.9N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 60.4E  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 274   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 214   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 28   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
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