Photo #: STS040-80-43 Date: Jun. 1991Geographic Region: USA-CALIFORNIA
Feature: MONO LAKE
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Photo #: STS040-80-43 Date: Jun. 1991 Geographic Region: USA-CALIFORNIA Feature: MONO LAKE |
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| STS040-80-43 Mono Lake, California, U.S.A. June 1991 Nestled in a basin between the high, snow-covered Sierra Nevada Mountains to the west and the lower, barren Excelsior Mountains to the east, Mono Lake is captured in this near-vertical photograph. Highly saline Mono Lake, almost 14 miles (23 kilometers) long and 9 miles (14 kilometers) wide, is located at an elevation of 6425 feet (1959 meters). Fed by springs that rise through beds of saline sands, the lake supplies water for the growing population of Los Angeles. During the last 20 years, the lake's total volume has been halved, and its salinity has doubled. Without measures to conserve the water volume, the ecosystem of the lake and its surrounding habitat are endangered. |
| Images: | All Available Images Low-Resolution 357k |
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| Mission: | STS040 |
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| Roll - Frame: | 80 - 43 |
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| Geographical Name: | USA-CALIFORNIA |
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| Features: | MONO LAKE |
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| Center Lat x Lon: | 38.0N x 119W |
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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: | 10 |
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| Camera:: | HB |
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| Camera Tilt: | 24 | LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical |
| Camera Focal Length: | 250 |
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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?: | N | Y=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't |
| Orbit Number: | 98 |
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| Date: | 19910611 | YYYYMMDD |
| Time: | 151939 | GMT HHMMSS |
| Nadir Lat: | 38.5N |
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
| Nadir Lon: | 118W |
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
| Sun Azimuth: | 83 | Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point |
| Space Craft Altitude: | 151 | nautical miles |
| Sun Elevation: | 30 | Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point |
| Land Views: | MOUNTAIN, FAULT |
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| Water Views: | LAKE |
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