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Posted by Mike on December 15, 2006, 7:27 pm
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Can anyone identify where in the world the shuttle was over when this
photo was taken?
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-116/html/s116e05983.html
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Posted by Brian Thorn on December 15, 2006, 10:13 pm
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Maybe New Zealand?
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Posted by Xizor on December 15, 2006, 10:55 pm
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> wrote:
>> Can anyone identify where in the world the shuttle was over when this
>> photo was taken?
>>
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-116/html/s116e05983.html
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> Maybe New Zealand?
Correct, top of the South Island.
Xizor
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Posted by John Doe on December 16, 2006, 3:02 am
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http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-116/html/s116e05983.html
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> > Maybe New Zealand?
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> Correct, top of the South Island.
That was my first reaction too. But the shapes just didn't look right.
There is a scale issue involved. Also, the antenna is obscuring the
wellington harbour.
With the wrong scaling interpretation, the north island portion we see
could have been Cape Paliser. But the alignment with the south island
didn't match.
But by lowering the scale to cover a much greater area, the north island
section covers cape paliser on the soutgh-east tip all the way to
Oteranga Bay on th south-west portion. And the north-west section would
go up towards Wanganui (but not getting that far).
Wellington Harbour is somewhat visible if you real;ly know what to look for.
And for the south island, the reduced scaling makes it valid terrian
when you include cape farewell on the north west tip , Able Tasman
peninsula, Tasman bay (at the bottom of which is the town of Nelson) and
then the rugged coastline which include tyhe queen charlotte sound used
by the ferries to reach picton.
The Wairau river is very visible. It reaches the pacific ocea on eastern
side at Bleinheim.
On teh west , it goes down south to somewhere north of Westport. On the
east coast, it would go down to just north of Chistchurch. A number of
large rivers are very visible.
It is an interesting exercise of trying to view the image in different
scales relative the the planet to try to figure out how much real
territory is being covered.
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Posted by Danny Deger on December 18, 2006, 9:10 pm
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> Xizor wrote:
>>> >>
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-116/html/s116e05983.html
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>> > Maybe New Zealand?
>> Correct, top of the South Island.
> That was my first reaction too. But the shapes just didn't look right.
> There is a scale issue involved. Also, the antenna is obscuring the
> wellington harbour.
> With the wrong scaling interpretation, the north island portion we see
> could have been Cape Paliser. But the alignment with the south island
> didn't match.
> But by lowering the scale to cover a much greater area, the north island
> section covers cape paliser on the soutgh-east tip all the way to
> Oteranga Bay on th south-west portion. And the north-west section would
> go up towards Wanganui (but not getting that far).
> Wellington Harbour is somewhat visible if you real;ly know what to look
> for.
> And for the south island, the reduced scaling makes it valid terrian
> when you include cape farewell on the north west tip , Able Tasman
> peninsula, Tasman bay (at the bottom of which is the town of Nelson) and
> then the rugged coastline which include tyhe queen charlotte sound used
> by the ferries to reach picton.
> The Wairau river is very visible. It reaches the pacific ocea on eastern
> side at Bleinheim.
> On teh west , it goes down south to somewhere north of Westport. On the
> east coast, it would go down to just north of Chistchurch. A number of
> large rivers are very visible.
> It is an interesting exercise of trying to view the image in different
> scales relative the the planet to try to figure out how much real
> territory is being covered.
The caption says New Zeeland guys.
Danny Deger
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