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			Photo #: STS61A-48-77 Date: Nov. 1985 Geographic Region: USA-TEXAS Feature: GALVESTON BAY



	STS61A-048-0077 Galveston Bay, Texas, U.S.A. November 1985 Sediment-laden Galveston Bay, which occupies the drowned mouths of the Trinity River and the San Jacinto River, is featured in this south-southwest-looking, low-oblique photograph. The bay presently averages 12 feet (4 meters) in depth; however, at the end of the last ice age, melting glaciers caused the sea level to rise approximately 400 feet (122 meters). A ship channel allows large merchant ships into the Port of Houston, the third-busiest port in the United States. Apparent are Trinity Bay (center of the photograph); the mouth of the Trinity River (bottom left) with its vast load of sediment at the north end of the bay; sediment-filled, circular Lake Anahuac east of the Trinity River mouth; southeast Houston and the small port city of Baytown; and Galveston near the southern portion of Galveston Bay (top center).

Images:	All Available Images Low-Resolution 370k
Mission:	STS61A
Roll - Frame:	48 - 77
Geographical Name:	USA-TEXAS
Features:	GALVESTON BAY
Center Lat x Lon:	29.5N x 94.5W
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:	27	LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length:	250
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:	64
Date:	19851103	YYYYMMDD
Time:	164104	GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat:	31.0N	Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon:	94.2W	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:	177	nautical miles
Sun Elevation:	40	Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views:	PLAIN, COAST
Water Views:	BAY, SEDIMENT, RIVER, GULF
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Man Made Views:
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