NASA Photo ID: SL4-136-3501        File Name: 10076355.jpg
Film Type: 70mm                    Date Taken: 02/02/74
Title: View of portion of Queensland, Australia from Skylab space station
Description:
A vertical view of a portion of the State of Queensland, Australia, (17.0S, 
140.0E) as photographed from the Skylab space station in Earth orbit. A 
Skylab 4 crewman used a hand-held 70mm Hasselblad camera to take this 
picture. The body of water is the southeastern part of the Gulf of 
Carpentaria. This picture was taken in support studies of the north 
Australian drought region. The largest island seen is Mornington. The town
of  Norwanton can also be seen. Of interest here is the sediment-laden
waters at  the perimeter of the Gulf showing how rains at the end of the
drought are  washing the top soil into the sea after the drought killed the
covering  vegatation. Also noted is that the vegetation patterns tend more
toward those  of other arid regions (i.e. they follow topographic and
hydrographic  patterns) rather than those in other parts of Australia (i.e.
more convenient  and easier to see, rectilinear patterns which are
prevalent in less arid  areas.)        

Subject terms:
AUSTRALIA                               
EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FROM SPACE)         
GULFS                                   
ISLANDS                                 
ONBOARD ACTIVITIES                      
PHOTOGRAPHY                             
SKYLAB 4                                
SKYLAB PROGRAM                          

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