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			Photo #: STS034-73-65 Date: Oct. 1989 Geographic Region: USA-NEW MEXICO Feature: LAS CRUCES, RIO GRANDE



	STS034-073-065 San Andres Mountains, New Mexico, U.S.A. October 1989 The north-south-trending San Andres Mountains of south-central New Mexico, with several peaks exceeding 8000 feet (2438 meters), extend diagonally across the desert landscape northeast of Las Cruces (barely discernible in the upper left of the photograph). Visible are the Tularosa Valley, the desert area east of the San Andres Mountains; the southwest corner of White Sands National Monument; a small section of the Rio Grande along the western side of Las Cruces; and dark cultivated fields in the floodplain of the Rio Grande.

Images:	All Available Images Low-Resolution 364k
Mission:	STS034
Roll - Frame:	73 - 65
Geographical Name:	USA-NEW MEXICO
Features:	LAS CRUCES, RIO GRANDE
Center Lat x Lon:	32.5N x 106.5W
Film Exposure:	N	N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP:	0
Camera:	HB
Camera Tilt:	10	LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length:	250
Nadir to Photo Center Direction:	SW	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:	20
Date:	19891019	YYYYMMDD
Time:	215240	GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat:	32.8N	Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon:	106.1W	Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth:	233	Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude:	172	nautical miles
Sun Elevation:	28	Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views:	MOUNTAIN, DESERT
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