Earth from Space - Image Information


	Image Information

Display a Screen Layout for Printing


			Photo #: STS062-83-48 Date: Mar. 1994 Geographic Region: USA-OKLAHOMA Feature: PONCA CITY, R, FLINT HILLS



	STS062-083-048 Ponca City, Arkansas River, and Kaw Lake, Oklahoma, U.S.A. March 1994 This east-looking, low-oblique photograph features the Arkansas River as it meanders generally southeastward from Arkansas City, Kansas, (left center) through Kaw Lake, past Ponca City and Sooner Lake, toward Tulsa (upper right). Ponca City, founded in 1893 after the opening of the Oklahoma Territory in 1889, is a trade, processing, and shipping hub in a grain, livestock, and oil area. Other manufactures include clothing, oil drilling equipment, and food processing products. Visible are the extreme southern portions of the gently rolling, grass-covered Flint Hills (upper left).

Images:	All Available Images Low-Resolution 396k
Mission:	STS062
Roll - Frame:	83 - 48
Geographical Name:	USA-OKLAHOMA
Features:	PONCA CITY, R, FLINT HILLS
Center Lat x Lon:	36.5N x 97W
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:	28	LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length:	250
Nadir to Photo Center Direction:	S	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:	20
Date:	19940305	YYYYMMDD
Time:	184904	GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat:	37.9N	Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon:	97.3W	Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth:	183	Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude:	161	nautical miles
Sun Elevation:	46	Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views:	PLAIN
Water Views:	RIVER, LAKE
Atmosphere Views:
Man Made Views:	AGRICULTURE, URBAN AREA
City Views:

Photo is not associated with any sequences

NASA
Home Page

This service is provided by the International Space Station program and the JSC Earth Science & Remote Sensing Unit, ARES Division, Exploration Integration Science Directorate.