
S81E5015 (13 January 1997) --- An Electronic Still Camera (ESC), mounted in the Space Shuttle Atlantis' aft flight deck overhead window, recorded this view of China, featuring two large lakes, Mapam Yumco and Langa Co. Once a year, NASA flies aboard its Shuttle fleet a student project called Kidsat, which enables students on Earth to have hands-on interface with Earth observations from a space perspective.
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February 10, 1997
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