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  Image: Geographic Location Direction Photo #: ISS065-E-22937 Date: May 2021
Geographic Region: USA-WYOMING
Feature: BIGHORN RIVER

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  Folds of the Bighorn Basin

The Bighorn River flows through much of north-central Wyoming and southern Montana, cutting through the rugged and angular terrain of the Bighorn Basin. Red rocks and complex geology are distinctive features of this physiographic region. The semi-arid climate creates a sparsely vegetated environment where dramatic geologic structures are easily identified from space and from the ground.

An astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS) looked westward to take this photo, capturing the shadows from the local sunrise. Along the right side of this image, the Bighorn River is almost hidden amid the mountains due to the shadows cast into Sheep Canyon.

Located in Wyoming's Rocky Mountains, Bighorn Basin is a large, oval-shaped depression and home to many rivers and geologic formations. This photo is centered on the Sheep Mountain anticline, a type of fold that forms due to compressional stress on rock layers. Geologic structures like this anticline are found throughout the Bighorn Basin and many are associated with oil and gas reservoirs.



 
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Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 201k
Mission: ISS065  
Roll - Frame: E - 22937
Geographical Name: USA-WYOMING  
Features: BIGHORN RIVER  
Center Lat x Lon: 44.6N x 108.2W
Film Exposure:   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 10
 
Camera: N8
 
Camera Tilt: 17   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 1150  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: W   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
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Date: 20210506   YYYYMMDD
Time: 132319   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 44.4N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 107.1W  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 81   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 224   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 15   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
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