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			Photo #: STS028-76-54 Date: Aug. 1989 Geographic Region: USA-MONTANA Feature: MISSOURI RIVER



	STS028-076-054 Missouri River and Little Rocky Mountains, Montana, U.S.A. August 1989 The Missouri River, heavy with silt and bounded in many places by steep cliffs; portions of the Little Rocky Mountains, an isolated cluster of low igneous rock peaks that were uplifted through the rocks of the high Great Plains 50 million years ago; and numerous canyonlike features are visible in this southeast-looking, low-oblique photograph. This region of the river is part of the Missouri Breaks Wild and Scenic River Area. Just below the top of the photograph, Armells Creek can be seen as it enters the Missouri River.

Images:	All Available Images Low-Resolution 370k
Mission:	STS028
Roll - Frame:	76 - 54
Geographical Name:	USA-MONTANA
Features:	MISSOURI RIVER
Center Lat x Lon:	48.0N x 109W
Film Exposure:	N	N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP:	10
Camera:	HB
Camera Tilt:	28	LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length:	250
Nadir to Photo Center Direction:	E	The direction from the nadir to the center point, N=North, S=South, E=East, W=West
Stereo?:	N	Y=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't
Orbit Number:	7
Date:	19890808	YYYYMMDD
Time:	220551	GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat:	48.2N	Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon:	110.4W	Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth:	239	Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude:	163	nautical miles
Sun Elevation:	44	Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views:	HILL
Water Views:	RIVER
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