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  Image: Geographic Location Direction Photo #: ISS010-E-22495 Date: Apr. 2005
Geographic Region: UK-ENGLAND
Feature: R. THAMES, CITY OF LONDON, DOME

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  London, United Kingdom

Numerous well-known landmarks appear in this detailed view of London taken from the International Space Station. To capture the shot, the astronaut had to look back along the Space Station's ground track, from a position over northern Germany. The most striking visual features are green open spaces such as Regent's Park, Hyde Park and St. James's Park east of Buckingham Palace. Many smaller parks indicate why Londoners are proud of being able to walk miles through the city mainly on grass. The River Thames--with its bridges and barges (some of the more than 14,000 craft registered to sail the Thames)--is the axis upon which the city was founded in Roman times.

The relatively small area known as the City of London coincides with the ancient walled Roman city of Londinium on the north bank of the river (the line of the wall is marked closely for almost its entire length by modern streets), and includes St. Paul's Cathedral near where the Roman temple stood. For scale, the river is 265 meters wide near St. Paul's. The City is the financial center while Westminster is the center of government, including the Houses of Parliament and 10 Downing Street, where the British Prime Minister lives.

Several large structures visible in this image are railroad stations: three serving areas north of London (Euston, St. Pancras, and King's Cross), and Waterloo Station serving southern Britain. The London Eye, a famous Ferris wheel 140 meters high, is situated on an oval island in the River Thames, visible just west of Waterloo Station. Many larger buildings can also be identified, partly because they cast shadows-- Buckingham Palace, St Paul's Cathedral, and the Tate Modern art museum (a converted power station whose 99-meter chimney was designed to fall just short of the crest of St Paul's dome).

 
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Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 768k
Mission: ISS010  
Roll - Frame: E - 22495
Geographical Name: UK-ENGLAND  
Features: R. THAMES, CITY OF LONDON, DOME  
Center Lat x Lon: 51.5N x 0.2W
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: W   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: 378  
 
Date: 20050402   YYYYMMDD
Time: 123214   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 51.6N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 5.5E  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 197   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 191   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 42   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: ISLAND  
Water Views: RIVER  
Atmosphere Views:  
Man Made Views:  
City Views: LONDON, ST. PAUL, WATERLOO  
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