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  Image: Geographic Location Direction Photo #: STS068-173-138 Date: Oct. 1994
Geographic Region: USA-ARIZONA
Feature: AGRICULTURE, COLORADO RIVER

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  STS068-173-138 Sonoran Desert, Arizona, U.S.A. October 1994
The southwest corner of the sparsely vegetated Sonoran Desert is captured in this low-oblique, northeast-looking photograph. The only diversity in an otherwise arid region is created by the irrigated-field patterns along floodplains of the Colorado River (south-flowing) and the Gila River (southwest-flowing). Several circular center-point irrigation fields are visible south of Yuma (bottom center of the photograph). The Gila Mountains east of Yuma and several other ranges--the Chocolate, Kofa, and Eagle Tail Mountains--can be seen between the Colorado and Gila Rivers. The linear Sand Hills are discernible across the bottom of the photograph.
 
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Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 257k
Mission: STS068  
Roll - Frame: 173 - 138
Geographical Name: USA-ARIZONA  
Features: AGRICULTURE, COLORADO RIVER  
Center Lat x Lon: 33.0N x 114.5W
Film Exposure: N   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 0
 
Camera: LH
 
Camera Tilt: 42   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 250  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: NE   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: 120  
 
Date: 19941007   YYYYMMDD
Time: 195324   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 32.1N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 115.9W  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 189   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 111   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 52   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: MOUNTAIN, DESERT  
Water Views: RIVER  
Atmosphere Views:  
Man Made Views: PIVOT IRRIGATION, AGRICULTURE  
City Views:  
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