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  Image: Geographic Location Direction Photo #: STS040-151-116 Date: Jun. 1991
Geographic Region: USA-CALIFORNIA
Feature: BARSTOW TO SALTON SEA

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  STS040-151-116 Southeastern California, U.S.A. June 1991
This southwest-looking, oblique photograph of southeastern California from the Salton Sea in the south to the southeastern Mojave Desert reveals the browns, tans, and yellows of this arid region. The only extensive area of vegetation lies in the cultivated northern Imperial Valley northwest of the Salton Sea. The dark, irrigated field patterns are barely discernible in the valley between the Santa Rosa Mountains (southwest of the valley) and the southeastern extension of the San Bernardino Mountains (north-northeast side of the valley). Mountains of various elevations and sizes stand in marked contrast with the sandy valleys between the ranges. The isolated, reflective white areas are dry lakebeds. The two darker, irregular features near the lower right side of the photograph are exposed lava beds.
 
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Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 278k
Mission: STS040  
Roll - Frame: 151 - 116
Geographical Name: USA-CALIFORNIA  
Features: BARSTOW TO SALTON SEA  
Center Lat x Lon: 34.5N x 116.5W
Film Exposure: N   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 0
 
Camera: LH
 
Camera Tilt: 35   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 90  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: S   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: 66  
 
Date: 19910609   YYYYMMDD
Time: 151325   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 36.1N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 115.8W  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 82   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 152   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 31   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: DESERT, MOUNTAIN, VOLCANO  
Water Views: LAKE  
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Man Made Views:  
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