| STS-112 Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Photographic Highlights |
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| Volcanoes of the Northwest: Green colors of the forests of the
Cascade Mts dominate the view. Browner colors top right are the
semiarid plains of the Columbia Basin, in the rainshadow of the
Cascades (north is towards the top left corner). The highest peaks in
this part of the Cascades are four volcanoes. The amount of snow is
a good indication of their altitude. The highest is Mt Rainier
(14,710 feet) with the greatest amount of white snow (top left).
Seattle lies immediately downslope (top left margin). Mt Adams
(12,276) lies due south in the middle of the view. Mt Hood (11,235
feet) in the lower right corner, lies south of the great gorge of the
Columbia River (which crosses the lower right and then the lower left
corners of the view). The river flows broadly west (left) to the
Pacific Ocean (out of the picture left). Mt St Helens (8364 feet), the snowfree brown patch lower left, was too low to retain snow after the recent fall. Even from the altitude of the Space Shuttle, the intact south half of the cone can be discerned: the famous blast of 1980 not only destroyed the north side of the cone but blew down the green forest for many square miles on the north side (brown signature). |
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