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  Image: Geographic Location Direction Photo #: STS083-747-88 Date: Apr. 1997
Geographic Region: PHILIPPINES
Feature: MAYON VOLCANO, PLUME

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  STS083-747-88 Mayon Volcano, Philippines
Mayon volcano is the most active volcano in the Philippines, located just north of the coastal town of Legaspi in southern Luzon about 325 km southeast of Manila. Mayon is a near-perfect cone; its steep, forested slopes look rather like a bull's eye when viewed from above. For scale, Mayon's circular footprint is about 16 km in diameter. This photograph was taken from the Space Shuttle on April 8, 1997. At the time the photo was taken, Mayon sported a steam plume from the summit. The lighter (non-forested) regions that radiate from the summit to the southern slopes are flows from eruptions that have occurred over the past twenty-five years. The current eruption, which started June 24, 2001, is sending flows down the southeast slope in the general direction of Legaspi.
 
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Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 65k
Mission: STS083  
Roll - Frame: 747 - 88
Geographical Name: PHILIPPINES  
Features: MAYON VOLCANO, PLUME  
Center Lat x Lon: 13.5N x 124.0E
Film Exposure: N   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 10
 
Camera: HB
 
Camera Tilt: 13   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 250  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: W   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: 57  
 
Date: 19970408   YYYYMMDD
Time: 080000   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 13.5N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 124.6E  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 271   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 161   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 27   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: VOLCANO  
Water Views:  
Atmosphere Views: PLUME  
Man Made Views:  
City Views:  
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