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			Photo #: STS029-92-38 Date: Mar. 1989 Geographic Region: TANZANIA Feature: LAKE NATRON



	STS029-092-038 Lake Natron, Tanzania March 1989 Lake Natron (pink color results from the pigmented microorganisms on top of the salt crust), approximately 35 miles (56 kilometers) long and 15 miles (24 kilometers) wide, has its northern end on the Tanzania-Kenya border; the summit of the small volcano, 5130 feet (1560 meters) above sea level at the northern end of the lake, is in Kenya. The north-south-trending lines on either side of Lake Natron help to establish the width of the Rift Valley at this point as approximately 20 miles (32 kilometers). Although this part of Africa has a humid, equatorial classification, this area has a definite dry winter season and varying rainfall amounts averaging approximately 40 inches (100 centimeters) annually. Lake Natron and its flamingo population are very sensitive to rainfall amounts-both suffer during drought. (Refer to photograph STS-41B-046-2955, taken 5 years earlier, which shows differences in the extent of the salt crust.)

Images:	All Available Images Low-Resolution 129k
Mission:	STS029
Roll - Frame:	92 - 38
Geographical Name:	TANZANIA
Features:	LAKE NATRON
Center Lat x Lon:	2.5S x 36.0E
Film Exposure:	N	N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP:	40
Camera:	HB
Camera Tilt:	33	LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length:	250
Nadir to Photo Center Direction:	E	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:	31
Date:	19890315	YYYYMMDD
Time:	124509	GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat:	3S	Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon:	34.3E	Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth:	270	Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude:	162	nautical miles
Sun Elevation:	46	Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views:	BASIN, VALLEY, FAULT, ESCARPMENT, HILL, VOLCANO
Water Views:	LAKE
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