Photo #: ISS042-E-101371 Date: Jan. 2015 Geographic Region: RUSSIAN FEDERATION Feature: KAMCHATKA, BOLSHAYA AND OPALA VOLCANOES |
Southern Kamchatka Volcanoes, Russia Crews aboard the International Space Station took this snowy view of two volcanoes in Russia's Far East. The image is centered on the Bolshaya Ipelka volcano that measures 40 km (25 miles) wide at its base--considered by geologists to be the largest volcanic structure in southern Kamchatka. But this older volcano is inactive with deep valleys along its flanks that were excavated by glaciers flowing radially out from the summit zone during the ice ages of the last two million years. The summit is the most severely eroded part of the original cone and originally had a much higher elevation than its present altitude of 1155 m (3785 feet). By contrast, the much smaller Opala stratovolcano--the cone only measures 14.5 km (9 miles) across at the base--is still active (it last erupted about 300 years ago) and therefore shows the classic cone shape. In this uneroded state Opala reaches a much greater altitude (2475 m, 8120 feet) than Bolshaya Ipelka. The summit is high enough that on this day it was obscured by a small cloud. Over the years ISS crews have imaged several volcanoes in this volcanically active part of the world. Low sun angles give dramatic three dimensional shots--such as |
Images: | All Available Images Low-Resolution 108k |
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Mission: | ISS042 |
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Roll - Frame: | E - 101371 |
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Geographical Name: | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
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Features: | KAMCHATKA, BOLSHAYA AND OPALA VOLCANOES |
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Center Lat x Lon: | 52.7N x 157.2E |
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Film Exposure: | N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus |
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Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: | 10 |
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Camera:: | N6 |
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Camera Tilt: | HO | LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical |
Camera Focal Length: | 500 |
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Nadir to Photo Center Direction: | W | The direction from the nadir to the center point, N=North, S=South, E=East, W=West |
Stereo?: | Y=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't |
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Date: | 20150106 | YYYYMMDD |
Time: | 233005 | GMT HHMMSS |
Nadir Lat: | 51.7N |
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Nadir Lon: | 164.3E |
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Sun Azimuth: | 157 | Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point |
Space Craft Altitude: | 218 | nautical miles |
Sun Elevation: | 13 | Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point |
Land Views: | VOLCANO |
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Water Views: | ICE |
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