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LOCATION Direction Photo #: STS066-89-19 Date: Nov. 1994
Geographic Region: AUSTRALIA-WA
Feature: DRY RIVERS,LAKES,AGRICULTURE


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STS066-089-019 Lake Moore Area, Western Australia, Australia November 1994
Although the bottom half of this easterly looking, low oblique image presents a non-descriptive landscape, the numerous, large dry lake-beds (lighter features) in the upper half help to locate and identify specific features. For example, the multi-fingered (5 "arms") dry lake in the upper left corner of the image is Lake Barlee. The other sizable dry lake, Lake Moore, is visible in the upper right quadrant. The highly reflective (whitish-looking, elongated feature near right middle) surface, Mongers Lake, suggests that there may be some sun reflection off of standing water in this normally dry lake at the time that this photograph was acquired. Western Australia gets drier and more barren to the north and east. The dramatic color change shows the abrupt change as a result of man's impact on the land use pattern. The darker landscape is a more primitive, naturally occurring environment and the lighter landscape shows man's ability to change the landscape. In some cases the straight lines show where fences are located.


Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 323k
Mission: STS066  
Roll - Frame: 89 - 19
Geographical Name: AUSTRALIA-WA  
Features: DRY RIVERS,LAKES,AGRICULTURE  
Center Lat x Lon: 28S x 115.5E
Film Exposure: N   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 5
 
Camera:: HB
 
Camera Tilt: 39   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 100  
 
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   Y=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't
Orbit Number: 37  
 
Date: 19941106   YYYYMMDD
Time: 003745   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 26.5S  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 113.9E  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 89   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 161   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 40   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views:  
Water Views: SUNGLINT, PLAYA  
Atmosphere Views:  
Man Made Views:  
City Views:  

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