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  Image: Geographic Location Direction Photo #: STS61A-44-90 Date: Nov. 1985
Geographic Region: INDONESIA
Feature: BORNEO

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  STS61A-44-0090 East Kalimantan, Indonesia November 1985
Located near the central east coast of East Kalimantan, this once totally tropical rainforest landscape (darker areas) now exhibits the impact of recent human development (lighter-colored areas). The lighter-colored corridors that have been cleared for agriculture tend to follow the severely meandering rivers (light-colored, linear features). Several roads can be traced across jungle-covered terrain, connecting developing agricultural sites and towns (also light-colored, linear features). The uniform-looking (color wise) vegetative cover (bottom center) appears to be the result of the development of large plantations. The confluence of the Marah River (more easterly) and Kindjau River can be seen near the bottom center (lower right quadrant). Almost the entire bottom third of the image is a flat, swampy area. A lake (dark feature) is visible near the bottom right corner of the image.
 
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Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 391k
Mission: STS61A  
Roll - Frame: 44 - 90
Geographical Name: INDONESIA  
Features: BORNEO  
Center Lat x Lon: .5N x 116.5E
Film Exposure: N   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 20
 
Camera: HB
 
Camera Tilt: 12   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 250  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: SW   The direction from the nadir to the center point, N=North, S=South, E=East, W=West
Stereo?: Y   Y=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't
Orbit Number: 54  
 
Date: 19851103   YYYYMMDD
Time: 012122   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 1.0N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 116.9E  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 114   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 175   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 48   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: FOREST  
Water Views: RIVER  
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