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LOCATION Direction Photo #: ISS051-E-13172 Date: Apr. 2017
Geographic Region: USA-NEVADA
Feature: FORT MOHAVE, MESQUITE CREEK, COLORADO R., AGR.


 
Image Caption: Colorado River Agriculture

Looking down on the desert vistas of the southwestern United States, an astronaut took this photograph of a short section of the Colorado River. This reach of the river is marked by dark-toned agricultural fields, both rectangular and round, restricted to the narrow zone of arable land on the floodplain close to the river. For scale, the larger crop circles are 750 meters in diameter. Note that from the astronaut's perspective here, north is to the left.

The towns of Fort Mohave and Mesquite Creek are more difficult to see and occupy slightly higher ground - separated from the floodplain by steep bluffs that appear along the lower margin of the image. This area lies within the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation; it is also where the state boundaries of Arizona, Nevada, and California meet. The Mojave people have leased much of the reservation to agribusinesses for cultivation of commodity crops such as alfalfa, corn, and soybeans. This has led to an influx of non-native people, such that the Mojave now make up less than half of the population of the reservation.



Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 432k
Mission: ISS051  
Roll - Frame: E - 13172
Geographical Name: USA-NEVADA  
Features: FORT MOHAVE, MESQUITE CREEK, COLORADO R., AGR.  
Center Lat x Lon: 35.0N x 114.6W
Film Exposure:   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 0
 
Camera:: N6
 
Camera Tilt: 19   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 1150  
 
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=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't
Orbit Number:  
 
Date: 20170414   YYYYMMDD
Time: 195539   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 35.7N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 113.6W  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 192   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 214   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 64   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
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