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			Photo #: NASA7-711-51 Date: Mar. 1998 Geographic Region: INDIA Feature: WESTERN GHATS, RESERVOIRS



	NASA7-711-051 Western Ghats, India Winter-Spring 1998 The irregular, dark-looking area that runs diagonally from the bottom left to the top right part of the image shows a section of the Western Ghats, a relatively low range of forested mountains that stretch along the southwest coast of India. Most of the elevations of the ridgelines and peaks in this section of the mountain range vary from 3000 feet to 4000 feet (915 meters to 1220 meters) above sea level with occasional elevations exceeding 4500 feet (1370 meters). The coastal plain in this area south of Bombay is narrow to almost nonexistent. The elevated landform east of the Western Ghats is the Deccan Plateau. The summer monsoon (rainy season) that brings in excess of 150 inches (4000 millimeters) of precipitation a year to this coastal region of southwest India has produced erosional canyons along the western facing slopes of the Western Ghats. Several eastward draining rivers (thin, white-looking lines), some with reservoirs (larger, white-looking features), are visible on the Deccan Plateau. The white-looking water is caused by the sun's reflection off of the surface of the water. The darker terrain along the eastern margin (left side) of the image is forested.

Images:	All Available Images Low-Resolution 375k
Mission:	NASA7
Roll - Frame:	711 - 51
Geographical Name:	INDIA
Features:	WESTERN GHATS, RESERVOIRS
Center Lat x Lon:	16.5N x 74.0E
Film Exposure:	N	N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP:	5
Camera:	HB
Camera Tilt:	LO	LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length:	100
Nadir to Photo Center Direction:		The direction from the nadir to the center point, N=North, S=South, E=East, W=West
Stereo?:	N	Y=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't
Orbit Number:
Date:	19980313	YYYYMMDD
Time:		GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat:	N	Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon:	E	Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth:		Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude:		nautical miles
Sun Elevation:		Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views:	MOUNTAIN, FOREST
Water Views:	RESERVOIR, RIVER
Atmosphere Views:
Man Made Views:
City Views:

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