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Spacecraft nadir point: 36.0° N, 35.0° E

Photo center point: 37.0° N, 35.5° E

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Spacecraft Altitude: 139 nautical miles (257km)
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Image Caption: Adana, Turkey (37.00 N, 35.32 E)
"From Acre in the Holy Land_the Polos travelled to Laias_on
the Turkish coast, then part of Little Armenia...From Little Armenia
the Polos headed to Greater Armenia via modern Anatolia, a region
Marco referred to [in his 1301 account titled Description of the
World] as `Turcomania'." From The Times Atlas of World Exploration
(1991), p. 156