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goal [[strikethrough]] tonight [[/strikethrough]] give you some appreciation for this perspective

* shuttle photos (don't fall in category of data, but very useful in illustrating, documenting phenomena)(left margin)Not the view you got from shuttle ↔
250-500km (lower than satellites: polar platforms @700km, 28/57)

First, familiarize you with the view: (100mm lens; 165 km/side; 30m res)

* - Florida peninsula.

* - Cape Canaveral (all astros have to take a picture of KSC)

* - Red Sea (STS-17). Nile river (vegetation)

Natural phenomena:

* - Mississippi Delta. very dynamic region - water distribution patterns vary; sediment loads vary; differences are evident in photos 

[[right margin]] (Bangladesh) [[/right margin]]

* - island of Hawaii - steam plume from volcanic eruption (near the Kilauea volcano). Astronauts typically photograph 2-4 eruptions per mission (some in remote areas, and not otherwise reported)

[[left margin]] 61C [[/left margin]]

* - hurricane in [[strikethrough]] the Indian ocean [[strikethrough]](~200km across) (1984) 

* - through the eye of the same hurricane (can see into the Indian Ocean)

* - plankton bloom off the Namibia coast of South Africa 

* - spiral eddies- [Med. sea] surface manifestation of mesoscale (<30km), rotating (2km/hr) features (50-300m deep)--peeling off a current.

* - Downdrafts caused by collapsing thunderstorms flatten the surface of the Atlantic. (rarely photographed - short timescale, [[strikethrough]] lighting [[/strikethrough]]

* -Lake Nassar. (1988) during long drought, Nile carried less water, so Lake Nassar retreated from areas previously covered. [aswan dam at top of photo] (more recent photos show recovery of lake)

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