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- NASA Photo ID: STS068-243-012 File Name: 20170183.jpg
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- Film Type: 70mm Date Taken: 10/11/94
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- Title: Lake Yamzho Yumco, Tibetan Plateau
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- Description:
- This nadir view of the southern Tibetan Plateau shows the plateau in late
- summer without snow. It also shows large, irregular Lake Yamzho Yumco,
- which has the unusual feature of different water color in different places,
- the darkest water apparently related to the remotest bays, and the lighter
- color resulting from sediment flowing into the lake from a stream at the
- bottom left. The multiple-channeled upper Brahmaputra River cuts the top
- left corner of the frame, flowing east (to the top right). The tributary
- entering the frame near the top left corner is the Lhasa River. Lhasa lies
- on this river just outside the frame.
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