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  Image: Geographic Location Direction Photo #: STS41G-120-22 Date: Oct. 1984
Geographic Region: CHINA
Feature: TIBET/HIMALAYAS

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  STS41G-120-0022 Tibetan Plateau and Himalayas, China October 1984
The Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau (also known as the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau) shown in this photograph were formed and continue to be modified by the convergent collision of two of the world's great continental tectonic plates, the Eurasian and the Indian-Australian. As a result of this collision that started more than 65 million years ago, the average elevation of the Tibetan Plateau (shades of brown and numerous deep blue lakes) in the intermountain valleys is approximately 16 000 feet (4880 meters). The lakes are fed by the snowmelt from the higher mountain ridges and peaks. Words like treeless, cold, barren, windswept, and desolate are good descriptors of the harsh environment that exists on this elevated plateau. Part of the highest mountains in the world, sometimes called the "rooftop of the world," the Himalayas create a formidable barrier southwest of the Tibetan Plateau. The snowcapped Himalayas trend in a southeast-northwest arc with more than 30 peaks rising to heights of more than 24 000 feet (7300 meters). Some clouds along the lower foothills on the southwest side of the Himalayas and some snowcapped mountain ridges and peaks are visible in the photograph. Toward the horizon, hazy and dusty conditions seem to exist on the Indo-Gangetic Plain of northern India (southwest) and the Takla Makan Desert of western China (northwest).
 
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Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 89k
Mission: STS41G  
Roll - Frame: 120 - 22
Geographical Name: CHINA  
Features: TIBET/HIMALAYAS  
Center Lat x Lon: 32.0N x 82.0E
Film Exposure: N   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 10
 
Camera: LH
 
Camera Tilt: HO   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 90  
 
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: 15  
 
Date: 198410__   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, PLATEAU, FAULT, RANGE  
Water Views: LAKE  
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