Transcript SaharaDustStormSRA049

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Identification
Mission: STS049 Roll: 92 Frame: 71 Mission ID on the Film or image: STS49
Country or Geographic Name: AFRICA
Features: DUST STORM, SAHARA DES.
Center Point Latitude: Center Point Longitude: (Negative numbers indicate south for latitude and west for longitude)
Stereo: No (Yes indicates there is an adjacent picture of the same area)
ONC Map ID: H-03 JNC Map ID: Camera
Camera Tilt:
Camera Focal Length: 250mm
Camera Look Direction:
Camera: HB: Hasselblad
Film: 5017 Quality
Film Exposure: Normal
Percentage of Cloud Cover: 15 (11-25) Nadir
Date: 19920513 (YYYYMMDD)GMT Time: 164351 (HHMMSS)
Nadir Point Latitude: 25.0, Longitude: 9.9 (Negative numbers indicate south for latitude and west for longitude)
Sun Azimuth: 283 (Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point)
Spacecraft Altitude: 194 nautical miles (359 km)
Sun Elevation Angle: 16 (Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point)
Orbit Number: 92 Captions
Saharan source region
Central Algeria is one of several dust source regions in the Sahara. Here two dust-front arcs can be discerned (center, left): the arcs intersect
at a point where a small cumulus cloud has developed. Here too, cloud color and texture (top left) are easy to tell apart from those of dust.