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Identification

Mission: STS096 Roll: 724 Frame: 53 Mission ID on the Film or image: STS96
Country or Geographic Name: EGYPT
Features: PAN-NILE, SYRIAN DESERT
Center Point Latitude: 31.0 Center Point Longitude: 33.5 (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-05 JNC Map ID: 22

Camera

Camera Tilt: High Oblique
Camera Focal Length: 40mm
Camera: HB: Hasselblad
Film: 5069 : Kodak Elite 100S, E6 Reversal, Replaces Lumiere, Warmer in tone vs. Lumiere.

Quality

Film Exposure: Out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover: 10 (0-10)

Nadir

Date: 19990602 (YYYYMMDD)GMT Time: 082835 (HHMMSS)
Nadir Point Latitude: 37.0, Longitude: 38.5 (Negative numbers indicate south for latitude and west for longitude)
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: Southwest
Sun Azimuth: 137 (Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point)
Spacecraft Altitude: 204 nautical miles (378 km)
Sun Elevation Angle: 71 (Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point)
Orbit Number: 93

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The Sinai Peninsula of Egypt is centered in this southwestward view; the Red Sea, Gulf
of Suez, Suez Canal, and Nile River delta lie beyond. Bahrat Hims, Syria, is the pale blue
lake near bottom center. The Gulf of Aqaba, Dead Sea, and the Sea of Galilee define the
eastern margin of the Peninsula. The city of Haifa is on the peninsula directly west of the
Sea of Galilee; Beirut, Lebanon occupies the next prominent peninsula to the north.

The Dead Sea fault zone marks the boundary between the African and Arabian
tectonic plates; Sinai Peninsula is the northeastern tip of the African plate, which is being
pulled apart by the Red Sea rift. This is one of the best photos to date of the region where
the Dead Sea fault zone splays to the northeast in Syria. Those northeasterly faults and
the East Anatolian fault zone define the margin between the Arabian and Eurasian plates.

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