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  Image: Geographic Location Direction Photo #: STS068-235-75 Date: Oct. 1994
Geographic Region: USA-COLORADO
Feature: PIKES PEAK, COL. SPRINGS

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  STS068-235-075 Colorado Springs and Pikes Peak, Colorado, U.S.A. October 1994
Sitting at the foot of Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs [located 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of Denver] can be seen in this southwest-looking, low-oblique photograph. The city grew as a trade center for the Cripple Creek gold field in the 1870s. Pikes Peak, discovered in 1806 by Zebulun Pike, is located in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The mountain is a tourist attraction noted for the view from its generally snowcapped summit, which can be reached by cog railway or highway. Colorado Springs is a beautiful residential and year-round vacation and resort city, with thriving industries producing a wide variety of products. Many mineral springs are located nearby, and the U.S. Air Force Academy is situated north-northwest of the city. Geographic features visible in the photograph are the Arkansas River Valley (south of Colorado Springs), the forest-covered Wet Mountains (southwest of Colorado Springs), and the snow-covered Sangre de Cristo Mountains (hugging the western edge of the photograph).
 
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Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 159k
Mission: STS068  
Roll - Frame: 235 - 75
Geographical Name: USA-COLORADO  
Features: PIKES PEAK, COL. SPRINGS  
Center Lat x Lon: 38.5N x 105W
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: LO   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: 167  
 
Date: 19941010   YYYYMMDD
Time: 171317   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 40.4N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 102.1W  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 153   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 111   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 39   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: MOUNTAIN, VALLEY, PLAIN, FOREST  
Water Views: RIVER  
Atmosphere Views:  
Man Made Views: URBAN AREA, AIRPORT, AGRICULTURE  
City Views:  
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