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1982 - 0058.PDF
.>• 3l/4i-^ J^;< i i gl Shuttle radar views Earth Top left Columbia's payload bay, looking oft, during the second Space Shuttle flight. The pallet- mounted Osta I experiments are in the foreground, with the Shuttle synthetic aperture radar (SAR) on the left. Top right' Spar Aerospace built Shuttle's remote manipulator, which flew for the first time on the second mission. Engle and Truly exercised the manipulator without picking anything up. Left The SAR produced this view of Lake Okeechobee, Florida, which is bounded by rectangular fields in the east (bottom). The bright borders of the lake are swamps. One of the advantages of the SAR is its ability to see through cloud cover, but processing of the data is slow. Below The Hamersley mountains in Western Australia, photographed by the SAR during IS seconds of operation. The range is volcanic in origin. Bottom Algeria's Tifernine dunes (light area at top centre and right) are visible in this photograph by hand-held camera. The dunes are more than 300m tall, and are trapped in the Tossili Nojjer mountains. The third Shuttle test flight is currently scheduled for late March, and will also fly a group of pallet- mounted experiments. Nasa's Office of Space Science is responsible for these experiments, which are called Oss I. The fourth and last Shuttle test flight is scheduled for early July 58 FLIGHT International, 9 January 1982
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