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  Image: Geographic Location Direction Photo #: ISS002-E-6176 Date: May 2001
Geographic Region: AZERBAIJAN
Feature: BAKU; OIL RIGS

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  Baku is Azerbaijan's major city, and the oil capital of the Caspian region. This detailed view taken by the Expedition 2 crew on the International Space Station shows details of the city, including the extensive port facilities, and part of the large web of offshore oil platforms in the Caspian Sea. The oil platforms off Baku were built in the 1950s and 1960s, and were the first offshore oil-drilling efforts in the world. A larger offshore complex (not pictured here) called the Oily Rocks included multistory dormitories, stores, and other infrastructures to support the thousands of workers employed by the oil industry. Today, multinational oil exploration, sea-level rise (the Caspian sea has risen more than 2 meters in the past 20 years), offshore platform maintenance, and environmental degradation are all hot topics in Baku.  
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Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 59k
Mission: ISS002  
Roll - Frame: E - 6176
Geographical Name: AZERBAIJAN  
Features: BAKU; OIL RIGS  
Center Lat x Lon: 40.5N x 50.0E
Film Exposure:   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 10
 
Camera: E2
 
Camera Tilt: 44   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 800  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: NE   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: 2073  
 
Date: 20010507   YYYYMMDD
Time: 105059   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 38.3N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 47.4E  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 241   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 210   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 56   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views:  
Water Views: SEA  
Atmosphere Views:  
Man Made Views: DRILLING, PORT  
City Views: BAKU  
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