Lebanon as seen from the Space shuttle -AstroLeb






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MAGAZINES	British astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle stated: "Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available - once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known - a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose." In the same spirit, we deliver you thanx to NASA's Johnson Space Center up to 400 photos of the Lebanese coast, mountains, airport, rivers, islands... with all the explanation you need to know like the kind of camera used when taking the photo, the film, percentage of clouds,nadir point, latitude, longitude, nadir to photo center, photo center direction, sun azimuth, spacecraft altitude, sun elevation angle, and even more...	Beirut Airport NASA/JSC

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Explanation: In this view north from the Sea of Galilee (G) along the Dead Sea fault zone, the fault steps left again to produce the swampy (dark patch) Hula Depression (H). It then makes a sharp bend to the right as it crosses through Lebanon in the Bekaa Valley (B). This bend puts this segment under compression and generates mountain ranges along it: the faulted coastal range of Lebanon and the folded ranges of Syria. Damascus (D) is along the southern edge of those ranges. It was founded at that location because of enormous springs that have furnished both drinking and irrigation water since humanity settled in this region. Farther north the fault turns north and continues intoTurkey. Left kink in the middle distance is a splay fault from the main trace of the Dead Sea fault zone. This splay frames the Gharb valley (Gh) of northern Syria Courtesy of "Earth from Space", Johnson Space Center, NASA.

Explanation: STS060-107-023 Lebanon Mountains, Beirut, Lebanon February 1994The rugged Lebanon Mountains can be seen rising from the narrow coastal plain in this mostly east-looking view. Snow covers the high peaks, which rise to over 11020 feet (3360 meters) at the left (north) of the image to over 8000 feet (2685 meters) at the right (south) on the image. Numerous river valleys descend down the western slopes of the mountain range to the Mediterranean Sea. At the left center of the image, the port city of Tripoli is located on the Mediterranean Sea coast. Tripoli has an oil refinery and is the terminus of an oil pipeline from Iraq. Citrus fruits and cotton are grown on the narrow coastal plain east of the city. Near the right center of the image is the capital and largest city in Lebanon, Beirut. Known as the “Paris of the East” before the civil war began in 1975 Beirut is now known as “the city that wouldn’t die.” The wounds from the Civil War, which ended in 1992, are still visible, but the city is slowly rebuilding. Before the war, Beirut was an important port and a commercial and financial center with many food-processing industries. The runways of the Beirut International Airport are discernible to the south of the city. Courtesy of "Earth from Space", Johnson Space Center, NASA.

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