Photo #: STS090-712-37 Date: Apr. 1998 Geographic Region: USA-MARYLAND Feature: SUNGLINT, PATUXENT RIVER |
STS090-712-037 Patuxent River Naval Air Center, Maryland April, 1998 Located 65 miles (105 km) southeast of Washington D. C. on a peninsula known as Center Point, the runways of the Patuxent River Naval Air Center can be seen in this south-looking view. The runways mark the area just south of where the mouth of the Patuxent River enters Chesapeake Bay. Patuxent was commissioned in April 1943 to centralize widely dispersed air testing facilities and is presently home to the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division. Chesapeake Bay covers a good portion of the left side of the image. A small portion of the Delmarva Peninsula from Taylor's Island to Hooper Island is visible in the bottom left portion of the image. The mouth of the Potomac River is visible in the upper center and upper right portion of the image. |
Images: | All Available Images Low-Resolution 317k |
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Mission: | STS090 |
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Roll - Frame: | 712 - 37 |
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Geographical Name: | USA-MARYLAND |
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Features: | SUNGLINT, PATUXENT RIVER |
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Center Lat x Lon: | 38.5N x 76.5W |
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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: | 24 | LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical |
Camera Focal Length: | 250 |
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Nadir to Photo Center Direction: | E | 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: | 128 |
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Date: | 19980425 | YYYYMMDD |
Time: | 163053 | GMT HHMMSS |
Nadir Lat: | 38.5N |
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Nadir Lon: | 77.5W |
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Sun Azimuth: | 159 | Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point |
Space Craft Altitude: | 133 | nautical miles |
Sun Elevation: | 64 | Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point |
Land Views: | PLAIN, FOREST |
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Water Views: | BAY, RIVER |
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Atmosphere Views: | |
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Man Made Views: | AIRPORT |
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City Views: | |
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Photo is not associated with any sequences |
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