Photo #: ISS013-E-65111 Date: Aug. 2006 Geographic Region: USA-CALIFORNIA Feature: SAN FRANCISCO,GOLDEN GATE |
ISS013-E-65111 (6 Aug. 2006) --- Golden Gate, San Francisco, CA is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 13 crewmember on the International Space Station. The Golden Gate of San Francisco Bay is one of the most recognizable straits in the world due to the Golden Gate Bridge that spans it. This image is a nearly cloud-free view of the northern San Francisco metropolitan area. The gridded pattern of streets, residential neighborhoods, and high-rise commercial blocks is clearly evident in the top half of the image. The twin support towers of the Golden Gate Bridge and its distinctive orange paint scheme can also be distinguished. The vegetated landscape of a portion of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (green rectangular region at image center) connects the Bridge with steep, less vegetated hill slopes south of the city of Sausalito across the strait. Other features in this view include the former prison of Alcatraz, located on the island of the same name. Numerous boat wakes of commercial and pleasure craft are visible beneath and to the west of the Bridge. The shadow of the roadbed of the Bridge can be seen directly to the west of the Bridge itself. Regions of greenish-brown water visible in San Francisco Bay mark water masses with differing amounts of suspended sediment that are streamlined by the strong tidal currents that flow through the strait. |
Images: | All Available Images Low-Resolution 353k |
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Mission: | ISS013 |
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Roll - Frame: | E - 65111 |
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Geographical Name: | USA-CALIFORNIA |
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Features: | SAN FRANCISCO,GOLDEN GATE |
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Center Lat x Lon: | 37.8N x 122.4W |
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Film Exposure: | N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus |
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Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: | 10 |
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Camera:: | E4 |
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Camera Tilt: | 21 | LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical |
Camera Focal Length: | 800 |
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Nadir to Photo Center Direction: | W | The direction from the nadir to the center point, N=North, S=South, E=East, W=West |
Stereo?: | Y=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't |
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Orbit Number: | 112 |
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Date: | 20060806 | YYYYMMDD |
Time: | 154559 | GMT HHMMSS |
Nadir Lat: | 37.5N |
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Nadir Lon: | 121.3W |
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Sun Azimuth: | 90 | Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point |
Space Craft Altitude: | 179 | nautical miles |
Sun Elevation: | 29 | Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point |
Land Views: | HILL, ISLAND |
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Water Views: | BAY, SEDIMENT, STRAIT |
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Atmosphere Views: | |
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Man Made Views: | BRIDGE |
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City Views: | SAN FRANCISCO |
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Photo is not associated with any sequences |
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