Photo #: STS091-719-59 Date: Jun. 1998 Geographic Region: IRAN Feature: TEHRAN, SHAHR REY, KARAJ |
STS091-719-059 Tehran Area, Iran June 1998 The physical setting for the Iranian capital and largest city, Tehran (darker landscape center of image), consists of mountains north of the large urban area and a few scattered hills on the relatively flat plains south of the city. Tehran with an estimated population of 10 million people is geographically located in north central Iran along the southern slopes of the Elburz Mountains (bottom quarter of image with some cloud cover). Recognized as Iran's economic and industrial core area, the region around Tehran experiences four seasonal regimes but the overall climate is semiarid. Precipitation amounts decrease from north to south and general ephemeral stream drainage is towards the south away from the higher elevations of the Elburz Mountains. |
Images: | All Available Images Low-Resolution 382k |
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Mission: | STS091 |
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Roll - Frame: | 719 - 59 |
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Geographical Name: | IRAN |
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Features: | TEHRAN, SHAHR REY, KARAJ |
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Center Lat x Lon: | 35.5N x 51.5E |
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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: | 10 |
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Camera:: | HB |
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Camera Tilt: | 36 | LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical |
Camera Focal Length: | 250 |
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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: | 150 |
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Date: | 19980612 | YYYYMMDD |
Time: | 101410 | GMT HHMMSS |
Nadir Lat: | 37.1N |
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Nadir Lon: | 53.1E |
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Sun Azimuth: | 247 | Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point |
Space Craft Altitude: | 186 | nautical miles |
Sun Elevation: | 63 | Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point |
Land Views: | MOUNTAIN |
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Man Made Views: | URBAN AREA |
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