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  Image: Geographic Location Direction Photo #: ISS013-E-19323 Date: May 2006
Geographic Region: USA-TEXAS
Feature: DALLAS-FORT WORTH AIRPORT

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  Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, TX

The largest airport in Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth International (DFW) is also the fourth largest in the world, and it occupies more surface area than the entire island of Manhattan in New York. The airport is officially owned by the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, but it is sited within the city limits of four neighboring cities (Coppell, Euless, Grapevine, and Irving). This situation of multiple jurisdictions has led to legal battles over expansion since the airport was opened in 1974, and the addition of new runways required a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1994. Over fifty-nine million passengers and approximately eight hundred thousand tons of cargo passed through the airport in 2005.

This oblique astronaut photograph (oblique means the viewing angle is not vertical relative to the Earth's surface beneath the International Space Station) captures the entire airport and portions of the surrounding Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. The white rooftops of the new International Terminal D (completed in 2005) are also distinct from less reflective rooftops of the older terminals. A sense of the size of the airport is provided by the approximately 2,800-meter-long, northwest-southeast runway to the west of Terminal D (2,800 meters is about 1.7 miles). The oblique viewing angle also accentuates light reflection off of North Lake (upper right), giving the water surface a grey-green cast.

 
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Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 297k
Mission: ISS013  
Roll - Frame: E - 19323
Geographical Name: USA-TEXAS  
Features: DALLAS-FORT WORTH AIRPORT  
Center Lat x Lon: 32.9N x 97W
Film Exposure:   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 10
 
Camera: E4
 
Camera Tilt: 34   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 800  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: SE   The direction from the nadir to the center point, N=North, S=South, E=East, W=West
Stereo?:   Y=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't
Orbit Number: 2773  
 
Date: 20060513   YYYYMMDD
Time: 173755   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 34.5N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 98.3W  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 141   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 186   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 70   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: ISLAND  
Water Views: LAKE  
Atmosphere Views:  
Man Made Views: AIRPORT  
City Views: DALLAS, FORT WORTH, MANHATTAN, YORK  
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