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LOCATION Direction Photo #: STS51F-42-38 Date: Aug. 1985
Geographic Region: USA-WYOMING
Feature: GREAT SALT LAKE


IMAGE
 
STS51F-042-0038 Great Salt Lake, Great Divide Basin, and Snake River Plain, Utah, Wyoming, and Idaho, U.S.A. August 1985
This west-southwest-looking, low-oblique, panoramic photograph shows portions of northern Utah, southwestern Wyoming, and southeastern Idaho. Several natural features are apparent--the Great Salt Lake in Utah; smaller, elongated Bear Lake; the Bear Lake Range, just above Bear Lake; and the Snake River Plain in Idaho. Visible are dark lava flows in the Snake River Plain and Craters of the Moon National Monument. The bottom half of the photograph shows the western portion of the Great Divide Basin in Wyoming. Clouds cover the southern portions of the Salt River Range and the Wind River Range in Wyoming.


Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 355k
Mission: STS51F  
Roll - Frame: 42 - 38
Geographical Name: USA-WYOMING  
Features: GREAT SALT LAKE  
Center Lat x Lon: 42.5N x 111W
Film Exposure: N   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 30
 
Camera:: HB
 
Camera Tilt: 55   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 100  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: W   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: 81  
 
Date: 19850803   YYYYMMDD
Time: 220441   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 41.4N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 107W  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 249   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 175   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 46   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: RANGE, BASIN  
Water Views: LAKE  
Atmosphere Views:  
Man Made Views:  
City Views:  

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