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  Image: Geographic Location Direction Photo #: STS062-104-94 Date: Mar. 1994
Geographic Region: USA-CALIFORNIA
Feature: SACRAMENTO

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  STS062-104-094 Sacramento, California, U.S.A. March 1994
Sacramento, the capital of California, appears in this near-vertical photograph. A deep water port, via a channel to Suisun Bay, Sacramento is the major shipping, rail, processing, and marketing center for the truck farms of the Sacramento Valley. The Sacramento River approaches the city from the north. The American River travels eastward through Folsom Lake to the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. The discovery of gold at Sutters Mill in 1848, just east of Folsom Lake, started the 1849 California Gold Rush. Sacramento was the western terminus of the Pony Express in the 1850s and early 1860s.
 
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Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 356k
Mission: STS062  
Roll - Frame: 104 - 94
Geographical Name: USA-CALIFORNIA  
Features: SACRAMENTO  
Center Lat x Lon: 38.5N x 121.5W
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: 21   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 250  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: E   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: 51  
 
Date: 19940307   YYYYMMDD
Time: 172536   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 38.3N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 122.5W  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 127   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 161   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 31   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: VALLEY  
Water Views: LAKE  
Atmosphere Views:  
Man Made Views: AGRICULTURE, URBAN AREA  
City Views: SACRAMENTO  
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