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Earth observations during Space Shuttle flight STS 50 - Columbia's mission to planet earth (June 25-July 9, 1992)A review of the imagery acquired during the STS 50 mission of the Space Shuttle is presented. The earth viewing photography from this flight includes photos of dust plumes over several portions of the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean. Over land, prominent dust plumes were seen over Iraq, North Africa, Sudan, and West Africa. The color infrared photography includes images of the tropical rain forests of South America and South and Southeast Asia. Other examples include photographs of floods in Argentina, photos of Lake Chad in Africa, Coastal Madagascar, the Aswan dam and the Nile, geologic features of North Africa, the center pivot irrigation land areas of Saudi Arabia, flooding in Asian rivers, and sediment plumes of South American and South and Southeast Asian coasts.
Document ID
19940034070
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Lulla, Kamlesh P.
(NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Helfert, Michael
(NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Amsbury, David
(NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Pitts, David
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Evans, Cynthia
(NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Wilkinson, Justin
(NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Helms, David
(NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Chambers, Mark
(NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Brumbaugh, Fred
(Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Co. Houston, TX, United States)
Richards, Richard N.
(NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
June 1, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: Geocarto International
Volume: 8
Issue: 2
ISSN: 1010-6049
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Accession Number
94A10725
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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