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			Photo #: STS056-77-37 Date: Apr. 1993 Geographic Region: USA-NEW MEXICO Feature: SIERRA BLANCA, LAVA FIELD



	STS056-077-037 Tularosa Valley, New Mexico, U.S.A. April 1993 A large section of the Tularosa Valley, sandwiched between the north-south-trending San Andres Mountains to the west and the heavily forested Sacramento and Sierra Blanca Mountains to the east, is featured in this northwest-looking, low-oblique photograph of south-central New Mexico. Visible in the valley are White Sands National Monument, the highly reflective gypsum desert; a black, ribbonlike youthful lava flow, which originated from a small volcanic center (Little Black Peak) at the north end of the flow that erupted fewer than 1000 years ago; and snowcapped Sierra Blanca Peak [12 003 feet (3659 meters)]. Visible is a drainage basin created by the Hondo River as it erodes the eastern slopes of the Sacramento Mountains and the southern slopes of the east-west-oriented Capitan Mountains (lower right edge of the photograph). A small section of the Rio Grande is apparent (upper left corner), and an older lava flow is barely discernible to its east.

Images:	All Available Images Low-Resolution 314k
Mission:	STS056
Roll - Frame:	77 - 37
Geographical Name:	USA-NEW MEXICO
Features:	SIERRA BLANCA, LAVA FIELD
Center Lat x Lon:	33.5N x 106W
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:	14	LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length:	100
Nadir to Photo Center Direction:	SW	The direction from the nadir to the center point, N=North, S=South, E=East, W=West
Stereo?:	Y	Y=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't
Orbit Number:	39
Date:	19930410	YYYYMMDD
Time:	151450	GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat:	33.8N	Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon:	105.4W	Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth:	102	Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude:	162	nautical miles
Sun Elevation:	32	Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views:	VALLEY, DESERT, VOLCANO, MOUNTAIN
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