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			Photo #: ISS042-E-244403 Date: Feb. 2015 Geographic Region: CHAD Feature: PAN- L. CHAD, DUST PLUME, BODELE DEPRESSION



	Lake Chad, and Saharan dust plume This east-looking image, taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station, shows landscapes of the arid Sahara (image left) and the darker vegetation of the wetter semi-arid tropical woodland known as the Sahel (image right). The dark green marshes of Lake Chad stand out in the foreground of this view. Even though it is more than 200 km long, Lake Chad is the small remnant of a vast lake that has repeatedly occupied most of the region in this view in the recent geological past. This lake basin have stretches from the foreground almost 1000 km to the foot of the Tibesti Mountains (image top left). The lowest slopes of the Tibesti show the remnants of great deltas. The image also captures an active dust plume--partly obscured by the so-called Canada Arm of the Space Station. The dust rises from the white mud flats of the ancient lake bed (image top left). Lofted into the atmosphere by northeasterly winds, dust from this basin often reaches the Atlantic Ocean, thousands of km to the west. Occasionally this dust is even carried by weather systems as far as the Americas.

Images:	All Available Images Low-Resolution 115k
Mission:	ISS042
Roll - Frame:	E - 244403
Geographical Name:	CHAD
Features:	PAN- L. CHAD, DUST PLUME, BODELE DEPRESSION
Center Lat x Lon:	14.0N x 16.0E
Film Exposure:		N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP:	10
Camera:	N6
Camera Tilt:	HO	LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length:	32
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:
Date:	20150212	YYYYMMDD
Time:	132753	GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat:	10.6N	Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon:	10.7E	Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth:	231	Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude:	215	nautical miles
Sun Elevation:	52	Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views:	BASIN
Water Views:	LAKE
Atmosphere Views:	DUST, PLUME
Man Made Views:
City Views:

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