Photo #: STS048-603-34 Date: Sep. 1991 Geographic Region: USA-UTAH Feature: GREAT SALT LAKE DESERT |
STS048-603-034 Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah, U.S.A. September 1992 The Great Salt Desert, the dry, salt-encrusted bed of prehistoric Lake Bonneville, is featured in this west-southwest-looking, low-oblique photograph. Interstate Highway 80 traverses west-east, north of which appear the Lakeside Mountains and, to their east, the Newfoundland Mountains. The Newfoundland Mountains are almost completely surrounded by shallow turquoise lakes. The north-south basin and range region of northeastern Nevada is apparent (top of photograph). |
Images: | All Available Images Low-Resolution 332k |
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Mission: | STS048 |
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Roll - Frame: | 603 - 34 |
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Geographical Name: | USA-UTAH |
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Features: | GREAT SALT LAKE DESERT |
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Center Lat x Lon: | 41.5N x 114W |
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Film Exposure: | U | N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus |
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: | 0 |
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Camera:: | RX |
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Camera Tilt: | 6 | LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical |
Camera Focal Length: | 250 |
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Nadir to Photo Center Direction: | SW | The direction from the nadir to the center point, N=North, S=South, E=East, W=West |
Stereo?: | Y | Y=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't |
Orbit Number: | 77 |
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Date: | 19910918 | YYYYMMDD |
Time: | 004500 | GMT HHMMSS |
Nadir Lat: | 41.8N |
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Nadir Lon: | 113.5W |
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Sun Azimuth: | 352 | Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point |
Space Craft Altitude: | 308 | nautical miles |
Sun Elevation: | -38 | Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point |
Land Views: | DESERT |
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Water Views: | PLAYA |
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Photo is not associated with any sequences |
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