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			Photo #: ISS040-E-88891 Date: Aug. 2014 Geographic Region: INDONESIA-B Feature: THUNDERHEADS, C. SELATAN, SMOKE PLUMES



	Thunderheads, Borneo, Indonesia Late afternoon sun casts long shadows from high thunderhead anvils over southern Borneo. Crews aboard the International Space Station have recently concentrated on panoramic views of clouds--taken with lenses similar to the focal length of the human eye. These images reveal the kinds of views crews see -- huge areas of the planet, with a strong three-dimensional sense of what it is like to fly 350 km above the Earth. Winds usually blow in different directions at different altitudes. High-altitude winds are clearly sweeping the tops off the many tallest thunderclouds, generating long anvils of diffuse cirrus plumes that trail south. At low levels, "streets" of white dots -- fair-weather cumulus clouds -- are aligned with west-moving winds (image lower left). Small smoke plumes from forest fires onshore are also aligned west. Storm formation near the horizon -- more than 1000 km distant (image center) -- is assisted as air currents rise over the central mountains of Borneo.

Images:	All Available Images Low-Resolution 85k
Mission:	ISS040
Roll - Frame:	E - 88891
Geographical Name:	INDONESIA-B
Features:	THUNDERHEADS, C. SELATAN, SMOKE PLUMES
Center Lat x Lon:	3S x 114.0E
Film Exposure:		N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP:	75
Camera:	N5
Camera Tilt:	55	LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length:	28
Nadir to Photo Center Direction:	N	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:
Date:	20140805	YYYYMMDD
Time:	093043	GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat:	8.1S	Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon:	112.7E	Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth:	290	Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude:	223	nautical miles
Sun Elevation:	13	Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
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Water Views:
Atmosphere Views:	SMOKE
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