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			Photo #: ISS017-E-18075 Date: Oct. 2008 Geographic Region: USA-COLORADO Feature: PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT



	Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado This astronaut photograph illustrates the unusual man-made landscape of the Pueblo Chemical Depot located near the city of Pueblo, Colorado. The depot was built during World War II by the U.S. Army to house and ship ammunition needed for war efforts, and this role transitioned to missile repair and maintenance during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. The current use of the depot is to house chemical munitions, but changes are underway by the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency to destroy these munitions and make the site environmentally safe for reuse. The stippled pattern on the landscape is due to hundreds of concrete and earth-covered storage "igloos" that form ordered rows across the site (image top). These igloos are where chemical munitions and other materials are secured. Larger, white-roofed maintenance buildings once used for munitions storage were built with separate compartments to minimize potential damage from explosions. Other features visible in this detailed image include roads (light tan lines) and rail lines (dark brown), water impoundments (black, irregular shapes), and various office and industrial buildings (rectangular shapes at image lower left.)

Images:	All Available Images Low-Resolution 266k
Mission:	ISS017
Roll - Frame:	E - 18075
Geographical Name:	USA-COLORADO
Features:	PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT
Center Lat x Lon:	38.3N x 104.3W
Film Exposure:		N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP:	10
Camera:	N2
Camera Tilt:	18	LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length:	800
Nadir to Photo Center Direction:	N	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:	532
Date:	20081001	YYYYMMDD
Time:	211747	GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat:	37.3N	Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon:	104.3W	Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth:	229	Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude:	189	nautical miles
Sun Elevation:	36	Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
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