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			Photo #: STS062-81-81 Date: Mar. 1994 Geographic Region: USA-NORTH CAROLINA Feature: WILMINGTON, CAPE FEAR, SED



	STS062-081-081 Cape Fear, North Carolina, U.S.A. March 1994 The Cape Fear River exhibits a broad floodplain (dark, north-south swath in center of image) as the river drains south along the southeast coast of North Carolina. The mouth of the Cape Fear River can be identified by the fan-shaped sediment plume (dark in color) that extends into the Atlantic Ocean (slightly below the center of the image). Cape Fear is located on the point of land southeast of the mouth of the river. U. S. Highway 17 is the thin, light-colored line that extends across the picture from northeast to southwest. The dark looking landscape (upper left) is an uninhabited marshland known as the Green Swamp. The elongated, dark features near the center of the image and west of the Cape Fear River are part of another swampy area called Boiling Spring Lakes.

Images:	All Available Images Low-Resolution 313k
Mission:	STS062
Roll - Frame:	81 - 81
Geographical Name:	USA-NORTH CAROLINA
Features:	WILMINGTON, CAPE FEAR, SED
Center Lat x Lon:	34.0N x 78W
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:	15	LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length:	250
Nadir to Photo Center Direction:	W	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:	17
Date:	19940305	YYYYMMDD
Time:	140720	GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat:	33.8N	Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon:	77.3W	Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth:	121	Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude:	161	nautical miles
Sun Elevation:	29	Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views:	CAPE, PLAIN, ISLAND
Water Views:	RIVER, OCEAN, SWAMP, LAKE
Atmosphere Views:
Man Made Views:	AGRICULTURE, HIGHWAY
City Views:

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