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			Photo #: STS61A-44-19 Date: Nov. 1985 Geographic Region: USA-TEXAS Feature: EL PASO



	STS61A-044-0019 Rio Grande Valley and El Paso, Texas, U.S.A. November 1985 This southwest-looking, low-oblique photograph features the Rio Grande Valley and El Paso in extreme west Texas. El Paso, located in a region of cattle ranches and cotton and vegetable farms, is a commercial, industrial, and mining center for west Texas and south-central New Mexico. Irrigation for the Rio Grande Valley is furnished by the Elephant Butte Reservoir (not visible) in New Mexico. Juarez, Mexico, lies opposite El Paso on the west bank of the Rio Grande. Apparent are the Franklin Mountains north of El Paso and the low, rugged Hueco Mountains east of El Paso.

Images:	All Available Images Low-Resolution 349k
Mission:	STS61A
Roll - Frame:	44 - 19
Geographical Name:	USA-TEXAS
Features:	EL PASO
Center Lat x Lon:	32.0N x 106.5W
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:	3	LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length:	250
Nadir to Photo Center Direction:	SE	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:	49
Date:	19851102	YYYYMMDD
Time:	175544	GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat:	32.1N	Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon:	106.6W	Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth:	162	Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude:	178	nautical miles
Sun Elevation:	41	Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views:	PLAIN, MOUNTAIN
Water Views:	RIVER
Atmosphere Views:
Man Made Views:	AGRICULTURE, AIRPORT
City Views:

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