Photo #: STS039-94-10 Date: May 1991Geographic Region: USA-CALIFORNIA
Feature: US-MEXICO BORDER
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Photo #: STS039-94-10 Date: May 1991 Geographic Region: USA-CALIFORNIA Feature: US-MEXICO BORDER |
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| STS039-094-010 Sonoran Desert, California, U.S.A. and Mexico May 1991 The light browns and tans of this photograph provide a clue to the natural environment for this part of southern California. This section of the Sonoran Desert shows two large, irrigated, cultivated field patterns where a variety of crops is grown--cotton, winter vegetables, alfalfa, citrus fruits, and dates. The Imperial Valley to the north contains large, regimented fields where mechanized, commercial agriculture is practiced (U.S. side of the border). The roughly triangular Colorado River delta shows smaller irrigated fields that are not neatly aligned (Mexican side of the border). The dark east-west line is the U.S.-Mexico border. A line of northwest-southeast-trending sand dunes, the Sand Hills, separates the Imperial Valley from the Chocolate Mountains to the east. The Salton Sea, 230 feet (70 meters) below sea level, is visible to the northwest. The highly reflective Laguna Salada, extending south of the border, intermittently receives water. |
| Images: | All Available Images Low-Resolution 321k |
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| Mission: | STS039 |
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| Roll - Frame: | 94 - 10 |
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| Geographical Name: | USA-CALIFORNIA |
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| Features: | US-MEXICO BORDER |
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| Center Lat x Lon: | 32.7N x 115W |
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| Film Exposure: | N | N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus |
| Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: | 0 |
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| Camera:: | HB |
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| Camera Tilt: | LO | LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical |
| Camera Focal Length: | 250 |
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| 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: | 104 |
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| Date: | 19910504 | YYYYMMDD |
| Time: | 201848 | GMT HHMMSS |
| Nadir Lat: | 36.2N |
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
| Nadir Lon: | 115.9W |
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
| Sun Azimuth: | 172 | Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point |
| Space Craft Altitude: | 145 | nautical miles |
| Sun Elevation: | 59 | Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point |
| Land Views: | DESERT, DUNE |
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| Water Views: | LAKE, RIVER, PLAYA |
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| Atmosphere Views: | |
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| Man Made Views: | AGRICULTURE |
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| City Views: | |
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