Photo #: STS038-78-90 Date: Nov. 1990 Geographic Region: BRAZIL Feature: BRASILIA |
STS038-078-090 Brasilia, Brazil November 1990 Brazil's capital city, Brasilia (1998 population estimated around 2 million), is one of the world's newest capital cities. Major construction projects have been underway since the 1950's to turn this once sparsely populated and remote region into a major economic and political sphere of influence for Brazil. Identifiable features include the sizable, darker landscape with an elongated lake (dark) which is the National Park of Brasilia; Lake Paranoa, the irregular-shaped, bluish-looking lake in the center of the image; and several light-colored residential sites that are visible mainly east and west of Lake Paranoa. The central city or political center of Brasilia (center of the image) was designed to look like a jet aircraft with swept-back wings and the nose of the aircraft pointing eastward. |
Images: | All Available Images Low-Resolution 395k |
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Mission: | STS038 |
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Roll - Frame: | 78 - 90 |
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Geographical Name: | BRAZIL |
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Features: | BRASILIA |
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Center Lat x Lon: | 15.8S x 47.9W |
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Film Exposure: | N | N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus |
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: | 0 |
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Camera:: | HB |
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Camera Tilt: | 21 | LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical |
Camera Focal Length: | 250 |
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Nadir to Photo Center Direction: | N | 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: | 25 |
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Date: | 19901117 | YYYYMMDD |
Time: | 124031 | GMT HHMMSS |
Nadir Lat: | 16.6S |
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Nadir Lon: | 47.5W |
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Sun Azimuth: | 100 | Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point |
Space Craft Altitude: | 141 | nautical miles |
Sun Elevation: | 58 | Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point |
Land Views: | PLAIN |
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Water Views: | LAKE |
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Atmosphere Views: | |
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Man Made Views: | |
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City Views: | BRAZILIA |
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Photo is not associated with any sequences |
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