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LOCATION Direction Photo #: NM21-765-16 Date: Jul. 1996
Geographic Region: USA-TEXAS
Feature: AMARILLO,RED R.,RES.,AGR


IMAGE
 
NM21-765-016 Amarillo, Texas, U.S.A Spring 1996
Visible in this photograph is some of the urban infrastructure--airport, highways, street patterns, central business district--of Amarillo, the largest city in the Texas panhandle. The only deviation from the flat and featureless Texas high plains is the southeast-flowing Prairie Dog Town Fork of the Red River, which has created picturesque Palo Duro Canyon. The majority of fluvial erosion occurred during a much wetter geological time; however, erosion still results from downpours in this semiarid climate. Most of the countryside surrounding Amarillo, except for the north and northwest, evidences widespread agriculture.


Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 299k
Mission: NM21  
Roll - Frame: 765 - 16
Geographical Name: USA-TEXAS  
Features: AMARILLO,RED R.,RES.,AGR  
Center Lat x Lon: 35.0N x 102W
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: 27   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 250  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: NW   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: 999  
 
Date: 19960703   YYYYMMDD
Time: 164857   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 33.5N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 101W  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 104   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 209   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 62   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: PLAIN  
Water Views:  
Atmosphere Views:  
Man Made Views: URBAN AREA, AGRICULTURE, AIRPORT  
City Views: AMARILLO  

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