Photo #: STS61A-42-43 Date: Nov. 1985Geographic Region: USA-TEXAS
Feature: GALVESTON BAY
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Photo #: STS61A-42-43 Date: Nov. 1985 Geographic Region: USA-TEXAS Feature: GALVESTON BAY |
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| STS61A-042-0043 Houston and Galveston, Texas, U.S.A. November 1985 The Houston and Galveston metropolitan areas are apparent in this southeast-looking, low-oblique photograph. Houston, the fourth most populous city in the United States, is one of the world's major oil centers; a great commercial, financial, medical, and industrial hub; and home of the NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. Access to the Port of Houston, the third-busiest port in the United States, is possible via a dredged channel from the Gulf of Mexico through shallow Galveston Bay. Galveston has major shipbuilding and repair yards and is a major tourist area. Rich agricultural lands of the coastal plain surround Houston from the south to the northwest. The large smoke plume (left center) was caused by an explosion and fire at a major oil refinery in the small community of Mont Belvieu. |
| Images: | All Available Images Low-Resolution 358k |
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| Mission: | STS61A |
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| Roll - Frame: | 42 - 43 |
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| Geographical Name: | USA-TEXAS |
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| Features: | GALVESTON BAY |
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| Center Lat x Lon: | 30.0N x 95W |
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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: | 43 | LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical |
| Camera Focal Length: | 250 |
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| Nadir to Photo Center Direction: | NW | 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: | 95 |
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| Date: | 19851105 | YYYYMMDD |
| Time: | 154218 | GMT HHMMSS |
| Nadir Lat: | 27.8N |
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
| Nadir Lon: | 93.4W |
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
| Sun Azimuth: | 138 | Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point |
| Space Craft Altitude: | 176 | nautical miles |
| Sun Elevation: | 35 | Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point |
| Land Views: | COAST, PLAIN, ISLAND |
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| Water Views: | GULF, BAY |
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| Atmosphere Views: | SMOKE |
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| Man Made Views: | HIGHWAY |
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| City Views: | |
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