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NASA Photo ID

STS043-71-4

Focal Length

250mm

Date taken

1991.08.02

Time taken

15:17:37 GMT

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Spacecraft nadir point: 20.7° N, 35.9° W

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Spacecraft Altitude: 162 nautical miles (300km)

Body: Earth

Country or Geographic Name:

ATLANTIC OCEAN

Features:

EXTERNAL TANK, CLOUDS

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Cloud Cover Percentage:

40 (26-50)%

Sun Elevation Angle:

78°

Sun Azimuth:

257°

Camera:

Hasselblad

Focal Length:

250mm

Camera Tilt:

High Oblique

Format:

5017: Kodak, natural color positive, Ektachrome, X Professional, ASA 64, standard base

Film Exposure:

Normal

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Image Caption: It's fuel consumed, the expendable external fuel tank was jettisoned moments earlier from the Space Shuttle Atlantis and now begins its plunge back to Earth (20.5N, 36.0W). Backdropped against the void of space and the thin blue line of the Earth's airglow above the Earth Limb, the harshness of the blackness of space is softened by the fleeciness of Earth's cloud cover below.