Earth from Space - Image Information


LOCATION Direction Photo #: NM21-763-36 Date: Jun. 1996
Geographic Region: USA-IOWA
Feature: SIOUX CITY, MISSOURI R.


IMAGE
 
NM21-763-036 Sioux City, Iowa, U.S.A. Winter 1995-1996
Featured in this northeast-looking, low-oblique photograph is the Missouri River. Visible to the west in Nebraska are the flat plains of the Missouri River Valley with their predominant agricultural field patterns. Sioux City, situated at the confluence of the Big Sioux, Floyd, and Missouri Rivers, is a shipping, trade, and industrial center for an extensive agricultural and livestock area. Bluffs rising 100 to 200 feet (31 to 62 meters) border Sioux City on the east and northeast. The runways of Sioux City Municipal Airport are visible south of the city.


Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 338k
Mission: NM21  
Roll - Frame: 763 - 36
Geographical Name: USA-IOWA  
Features: SIOUX CITY, MISSOURI R.  
Center Lat x Lon: 42.5N x 96.5W
Film Exposure: N   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 20
 
Camera:: HB
 
Camera Tilt: 16   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?: N   Y=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't
Orbit Number: 999  
 
Date: 19960629   YYYYMMDD
Time: 185943   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 42.4N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 95.5W  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 203   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 208   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 70   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: VALLEY  
Water Views: RIVER  
Atmosphere Views:  
Man Made Views: URBAN AREA, AGRICULTURE, AIRPORT  
City Views: SIOUX CITY  

Photo is not associated with any sequences


NASA
Home Page
JSC
Home Page
JSC Digital
Image Collection
Earth Science &
Remote Sensing

NASA meatball logo
This service is provided by the International Space Station program and the JSC Earth Science & Remote Sensing Unit, ARES Division, Exploration Integration Science Directorate.
ESRS logo