Photo #: STS040-609-37 Date: Jun. 1991 Geographic Region: USA-CALIFORNIA Feature: SACRAMENTO VALLEY |
STS040-609-037 Sacramento Valley and Coast Range, California, U.S.A. June 1991 This low, oblique, south-southeast-looking, synoptic photograph shows the Coast Range and Sacramento Valley of north-central California. Easily discernible are the checked pattern agriculture fields in the Sacramento Valley, Sutter Buttes in the center of the valley, forested coast ranges situated between the Pacific Ocean on the west and the Sacramento Valley, and the Sierra Nevada Mountains with Lake Tahoe in sunglint near the top left of the photograph. White clouds hug the coastline near the San Francisco Bay at the top right of the photograph. |
Images: | All Available Images Low-Resolution 339k |
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Mission: | STS040 |
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Roll - Frame: | 609 - 37 |
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Geographical Name: | USA-CALIFORNIA |
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Features: | SACRAMENTO VALLEY |
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Center Lat x Lon: | 39.0N x 122W |
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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: | 5 |
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Camera:: | RX |
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Camera Tilt: | LO | LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical |
Camera Focal Length: | 100 |
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Nadir to Photo Center Direction: | The direction from the nadir to the center point, N=North, S=South, E=East, W=West |
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Stereo?: | Y | Y=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't |
Orbit Number: | |
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Date: | 199106__ | YYYYMMDD |
Time: | GMT HHMMSS |
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Nadir Lat: | N |
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Nadir Lon: | E |
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Sun Azimuth: | Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point |
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Space Craft Altitude: | nautical miles |
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Sun Elevation: | Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point |
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Land Views: | MOUNTAIN, COAST, VALLEY, FAULT |
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Water Views: | BAY |
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Atmosphere Views: | |
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Man Made Views: | AGRICULTURE |
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City Views: | |
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Photo is not associated with any sequences |
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