Earth from Space - Image Description

STS062-104-008 Fort Stockton, Texas, U.S.A. March 1994
The intersection of east-west-oriented Interstate Highway 10 and a northeast-southwest railroad right-of-way helps to locate Fort Stockton in this oblique, southwest-looking photograph. This west Texas city is located on flat, open Stockton Plateau. Apparent are irrigated, cultivated fields (more numerous toward the north) and small, dark Imperial Reservoir immediately south of the Pecos River.

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