Photo #: STS066-118-23 Date: Nov. 1994Geographic Region: CHINA
Feature: CH'ING-HAI L., MOUNTAINS
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Photo #: STS066-118-23 Date: Nov. 1994 Geographic Region: CHINA Feature: CH'ING-HAI L., MOUNTAINS |
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| STS066-118-023 Qinghai Lake, Qinghai Province, China November 1994 Qinghai Lake, with an area of 1770 square miles (4580 square kilometers) and a maximum depth of 108 feet (33 meters), is the largest natural lake in China. Situated in the eastern end of the desert environment of the Qaidam Basin in Qinghai Province, the lake's main source of recharge water is snowmelt from the encircling mountain ranges that rise in excess of 14 000 feet (4265 meters). Several small deltas with cultivated field patterns surround the lake. Qinghai Lake, one of many inland saline lakes in west-central and northwest China, exhibits sand deposits on its western shoreline as well as its eastern shoreline where the deposits extend into the lake. |
| Images: | All Available Images Low-Resolution 119k |
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| Mission: | STS066 |
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| Roll - Frame: | 118 - 23 |
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| Geographical Name: | CHINA |
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| Features: | CH'ING-HAI L., MOUNTAINS |
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| Center Lat x Lon: | 37.0N x 100.0E |
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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: | 0 |
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| Camera:: | HB |
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| Camera Tilt: | 51 | LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical |
| Camera Focal Length: | 100 |
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| Nadir to Photo Center Direction: | E | 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: | 72 |
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| Date: | 19941108 | YYYYMMDD |
| Time: | 041336 | GMT HHMMSS |
| Nadir Lat: | 38.0N |
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
| Nadir Lon: | 96.9E |
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
| Sun Azimuth: | 162 | Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point |
| Space Craft Altitude: | 161 | nautical miles |
| Sun Elevation: | 34 | Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point |
| Land Views: | PLATEAU, FAULT |
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| Water Views: | LAKE |
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| Atmosphere Views: | |
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| Man Made Views: | AGRICULTURE |
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