STS052-23-22

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Spacecraft nadir point: 5.5° S, 29.5° E

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Spacecraft Altitude: 154 nautical miles (285km)
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Image Caption: This sunrise scene (5.5S, 29.5E) was taken early in the morning, when the sun was still below the horizon and not yet illuminating the dark band of low level clouds on the Earth limb. Ranging from 13 to 18 km. above these low level clouds is a brown layer at the tropopause, an atmospheric temperature inversion which isolates the troposphere from the stratosphere and effectively concentrates particulates from both above and below this level.