Photo #: STS059-84-80 Date: Apr. 1994 Geographic Region: CAMBODIA Feature: TONLE SAP |
STS059-084-080 Tonle Sap, Cambodia April 1994 The Tonle Sap (also know as the Great Lake) occupies a depression in the Cambodian Plain and is a shallow silt-laden lake. It is the largest lake in Southeast Asia and is fed by many streams. The Tonle Sap is drained by the Tonle Sab River (upper center), which flows south-southeast to the Mekong River (not visible on the image). The river connecting the Tonle Sap with the Mekong creates a unique phenomenon not known in any other part of the world: reversing its direction of flow twice a year. For most of the time, the Tonle Sab River flows from the lake to the Mekong River near the capital city of Phnom Penh. However, during the Southeast Asian monsoon season from June to November, when the Mekong drains large areas of Southeast Asia, the Tonle Sab flows from the Mekong back into the Tonle Sap. During the monsoon season, the Tonle Sap increases from 1000 sq. miles (2600 sq. km) to near 4020 sq. miles (10400 sq. km) raising the lake level 30 feet (9 meters), causing enormous floods in the region surrounding the lake. |
Images: | All Available Images Low-Resolution 330k |
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Mission: | STS059 |
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Roll - Frame: | 84 - 80 |
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Geographical Name: | CAMBODIA |
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Features: | TONLE SAP |
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Center Lat x Lon: | 13.0N x 104.0E |
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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: | 20 |
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Camera:: | HB |
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Camera Tilt: | 23 | LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical |
Camera Focal Length: | 100 |
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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: | 31 |
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Date: | 19940411 | YYYYMMDD |
Time: | 080741 | GMT HHMMSS |
Nadir Lat: | 13.5N |
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Nadir Lon: | 104.7E |
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Sun Azimuth: | 268 | Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point |
Space Craft Altitude: | 120 | nautical miles |
Sun Elevation: | 44 | 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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Man Made Views: | AGRICULTURE |
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Photo is not associated with any sequences |
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