NASA Photo ID: STS056(E)002        File Name: 10072674.jpg
  Film Type: 4x5 BW                  Date Taken: 04/17/93
  Title: STS-56 ESC Earth observation of Darwin, Australia
  Description:
  STS-56 electronic still camera (ESC) Earth observation image taken aboard 
  Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, is of Darwin, Australia. The image was 
  recorded with a 180mm lens on the Hand-held, Earth-oriented, Real-time, 
  Cooperative, User-friendly, Location-targeting and Environmental System 
  (HERCULES). HERCULES is a device that makes it simple for Shuttle
  crewmembers  to take pictures of Earth as they just point a modified 35mm
  camera and shoot  any interesting feature, whose latitude and longitude are
  automatically  determined in real time.  In this observation, the center
  coordinates are  12.433 degrees south latitude and 130.939 degrees east
  longitude. Geolocation  accuracy on this image is 2.3 nautical miles. 
  Digital file name is  ESC01037.IMG.           
  
  Subject terms:
  AUSTRALIA                               
  DISCOVERY (ORBITER)                     
  EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FROM SPACE)         
  ELECTRO-OPTICAL PHOTOGRAPHY             
  ELECTRONIC STILL CAMERA                 
  STS-56                                  
  

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