STS102-349-35
| NASA Photo ID | STS102-349-35 |
| Focal Length | mm |
| Date taken | 2001.03.16 |
| Time taken | 17:10:12 GMT |
Cloud masks available for this image:
Spacecraft nadir point: 29.4° N, 83.4° W
Photo center point: 29.5° N, 85.0° W
Photo center point: 29.5° N, 85.0° W
Nadir to Photo Center: West
Spacecraft Altitude: 203 nautical miles (376km)
Country or Geographic Name: | USA-FLORIDA |
Features: | ST. VINCENT ISLAND, SUNGLINT |
| Features Found Using Machine Learning: | |
Cloud Cover Percentage: | 10 (1-10)% |
Sun Elevation Angle: | 58° |
Sun Azimuth: | 165° |
Camera: | Nikon 35mm film camera |
Focal Length: | mm |
Camera Tilt: | 25 degrees |
Format: | |
Film Exposure: | |
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| Width | Height | Annotated | Cropped | Purpose | Links |
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| 540 pixels | 416 pixels | Yes | Yes | NASA's Earth Observatory web site | Download Image |
| 640 pixels | 426 pixels | No | No | Download Image | |
| 400 pixels | 307 pixels | Yes | No | Photographic Highlights | Download Image |
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Image Caption: Beach ridges sweep in bands across St. Vincent Island, a coastal barrier about 120 km southwest of Tallahassee, Florida. These depositional features have accumulated over time on the barrier island, and chronicle the island's evolution. The swales between the ridges some of which are water-filled, creating elongated lakes represent periods of island accretion between intervals of beach ridge development. Each ridge in the series marks the location of the island shoreline. The oldest ridge, approximately 3000 years old, is on the north side. The youngest the berm of the modern beach is on the south-facing portion of the present-day Gulf beach.
The crew of Space Shuttle 102 used the reflection of the sun off water that lies in the swales between ridges to emphasize the variable topography of the beach ridge plain. Similar topography -- although formed in a different manner, combining river and marine deposition -- can be seen on the Po and Ebro river deltas of Italy and Spain, respectively, and on the Mississippi
river coast of Louisiana.
St. Vincent Island, which lies between Cape San Blas and the town of Apalachicola on the Florida Panhandle, is a national wildlife refuge and an important breeding ground for loggerhead turtles. Sambar deer, a variety of Asian elk that can weigh as much as 700 pounds, roam the marshlands, and
eastern gray wolves have been bred there. The deer were introduced in the early 1900s, when the island was a privately owned hunting ground for exotic game.
Link to Earth Observatory Caption >>
The crew of Space Shuttle 102 used the reflection of the sun off water that lies in the swales between ridges to emphasize the variable topography of the beach ridge plain. Similar topography -- although formed in a different manner, combining river and marine deposition -- can be seen on the Po and Ebro river deltas of Italy and Spain, respectively, and on the Mississippi
river coast of Louisiana.
St. Vincent Island, which lies between Cape San Blas and the town of Apalachicola on the Florida Panhandle, is a national wildlife refuge and an important breeding ground for loggerhead turtles. Sambar deer, a variety of Asian elk that can weigh as much as 700 pounds, roam the marshlands, and
eastern gray wolves have been bred there. The deer were introduced in the early 1900s, when the island was a privately owned hunting ground for exotic game.
Link to Earth Observatory Caption >>
