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			Photo #: STS058-88-47 Date: Oct. 1993 Geographic Region: USA-KANSAS Feature: EMPORIA AREA



	STS058-088-047 Emporia and John Redmond Reservoir, Kansas, U.S.A. October 1993 Emporia and silt-laden John Redmond Reservoir (lower left), part of which is included in the Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge, are visible in this west-looking, low-oblique photograph. Located in the Flint Hills between the Neosho and Cottonwood Rivers, Emporia is a commercial and shipping center for the surrounding cattle and farm region. The city has grain elevators; stockyards; industries processing beef and soybeans; and plants producing printing equipment, baked goods, cheese, and steel tanks. Emporia is the home of William Allen White who made the Emporia Gazette a nationally known newspaper. Northeast-southwest-oriented Interstate Highway 35 cuts through the western edge of the city.

Images:	All Available Images Low-Resolution 374k
Mission:	STS058
Roll - Frame:	88 - 47
Geographical Name:	USA-KANSAS
Features:	EMPORIA AREA
Center Lat x Lon:	38.5N x 96W
Film Exposure:	N	N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP:	0
Camera:	HB
Camera Tilt:	14	LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length:	250
Nadir to Photo Center Direction:	SW	The direction from the nadir to the center point, N=North, S=South, E=East, W=West
Stereo?:	Y	Y=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't
Orbit Number:	66
Date:	19931022	YYYYMMDD
Time:	164231	GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat:	39.0N	Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon:	95.6W	Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth:	154	Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude:	155	nautical miles
Sun Elevation:	36	Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views:	PLAIN
Water Views:	LAKE
Atmosphere Views:
Man Made Views:	URBAN AREA, AGRICULTURE
City Views:

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