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  Image: Geographic Location Direction Photo #: ISS060-E-33914 Date: Aug. 2019
Geographic Region: USA-ALASKA
Feature: MOUNT KATMAI, CRATER LAKE, NAKNEK LAKE

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  Beauty Carved by Nature's Violence

This photograph of the Alaskan Peninsula, shot by an astronaut from the International Space Station (ISS), offers an oblique view of Katmai National Park. Many of the mountains are active volcanoes, part of the Aleutian Range, and several are topped by glaciers.

Just northwest of the coastal mountain range lies the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a river valley that was buried by an eruption of Novarupta volcano in 1912. It was the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century.

Large quantities of hot ash and pumice were ejected during the eruption. The rain of hot debris buried the snow and glacial streams, immediately flashing them into steam. Those volcanic deposits remained hot for years afterwards and often converted subsequent precipitation and surface stream flows into steam, hence the name Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. During the same eruption, the summit of Mount Katmai collapsed, forming a deep caldera that has filled with water as a crater lake.

Katmai National Park has multiple sediment-rich rivers that deliver freshwater to the ocean. These rivers and streams provide avenues for anadromous fish species, especially salmon, to migrate and spawn upstream in the park. The abundance of fish is important for some of Katmai's other residents: bald eagles and brown bears.

 
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Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 417k
Mission: ISS060  
Roll - Frame: E - 33914
Geographical Name: USA-ALASKA  
Features: MOUNT KATMAI, CRATER LAKE, NAKNEK LAKE  
Center Lat x Lon: 58.3N x 154.9W
Film Exposure:   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 10
 
Camera: N8
 
Camera Tilt: HO   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 500  
 
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
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Date: 20190811   YYYYMMDD
Time: 001759   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 50.5N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 161.8W  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 214   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 222   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 51   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
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