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LOCATION Direction Photo #: STS51I-39-8 Date: Sep. 1985
Geographic Region: KENYA
Feature: LAKE RUDOLF, OMO RIVER


IMAGE
 
STS51I-39-0008 Omo River Delta and Lake Turkana, Ethiopia and Kenya August 1985
The Omo River Delta, growing and expanding into Lake Turkana (Lake Rudolf) can be seen in this near-vertical photograph as the dark green area at the north end of the lake. A small island, remnant of an old volcanic peak, can be seen in the middle of the lake south of the delta. Before 1950, the Omo River, 400 miles (650 kilometers) long, with headwaters in the Ethiopian Highlands, emptied into the lake with little sedimentation. Lake Turkana, 154 miles (250 kilometers) long and 10 to 20 miles (16 to 32 kilometers) wide, is part of the Great Rift Valley of eastern Africa. Deforestation in the southern Ethiopian Highlands began in earnest in the 1950s and continues today. Since 1960 a delta has been forming and expanding outward into a very deep Lake Rudolf. Even with this influx of fresh water, Lake Rudolf, surrounded on all sides by volcanoes, has no natural outlet; thus, its water is becoming more saline each year. Fish, the staple of the local villagers' diet, are declining in numbers as the lake water becomes more laden with sediment and salt.


Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 104k
Mission: STS51I  
Roll - Frame: 39 - 8
Geographical Name: KENYA  
Features: LAKE RUDOLF, OMO RIVER  
Center Lat x Lon: 4.0N x 36.0E
Film Exposure: N   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 0
 
Camera:: HB
 
Camera Tilt: 30   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 250  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: NE   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: 92  
 
Date: 19850902   YYYYMMDD
Time: 063236   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 3.0N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 34.1E  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 82   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 219   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 42   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: RIFT, FAULT, MOUNTAIN  
Water Views: LAKE, SEDIMENT, DELTA  
Atmosphere Views:  
Man Made Views:  
City Views:  

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