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  Image: Geographic Location Direction Photo #: ISS008-E-12390 Date: Jan. 2004
Geographic Region: ARGENTINA
Feature: VIEDMA GLACIER, MORAINES, LAKES

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  Viedma Glacier, Southern Argentina:
This detailed view was taken with an 800 mm lens from the International Space Station on 10 January, 2004. The image shows the lower end of the Viedma Glacier that flows into Lake Viedma, one of three major glacially formed lakes on the Patagonian side of the southern Andean ice sheet, at 50 degrees South.

The image reveals the slender dark lines of rock material (moraine) which is carried in the slowly flowing ice. Lighter lines at right angles are patterns of crevasses. The glacier diverges into two lakes where calved icebergs can be seen floating in the lakes.

The glacier here is about 1.8 km wide. The thickest moraine parallels the north side of the valley. This moraine separates lighter-colored ice to the south (in the main part of the glacier) from darker ice along the northern margin (between arrows). The ice is darker due to greater proportions of rock material mixed with it. Ice on the northern margin flows into embayments in the valley wall (top center and top left), resulting in a greater flow distance and hence more time for the ice to be impregnated with rocky material from the valley floor and walls.
 
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Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 46k
Mission: ISS008  
Roll - Frame: E - 12390
Geographical Name: ARGENTINA  
Features: VIEDMA GLACIER, MORAINES, LAKES  
Center Lat x Lon: 49.5S x 73W
Film Exposure:   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 10
 
Camera: E4
 
Camera Tilt: HO   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 800  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: E   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: 1346  
 
Date: 20040110   YYYYMMDD
Time: 184330   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 51.4S  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 77.7W  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 322   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 205   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 56   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: GLACIER, VALLEY  
Water Views: ICE, LAKE  
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