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LOCATION Direction Photo #: NM21-765-36 Date: Jul. 1996
Geographic Region: USA-IOWA
Feature: BURLINGTON,MISSISSIPPI R


IMAGE
 
NM21-765-036 Mississippi River and Burlington, Iowa, U.S.A. Winter 1995-1996
The muddy Mississippi River and numerous agricultural field patterns in its floodplain are featured in this northeast-looking, low-oblique photograph. Burlington, a river city (midway between center and bottom center) on the west bank of the Mississippi, is a farm, shipping, and manufacturing center in this rich agricultural region and home of one of the state's oldest newspapers still in publication.


Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 367k
Mission: NM21  
Roll - Frame: 765 - 36
Geographical Name: USA-IOWA  
Features: BURLINGTON,MISSISSIPPI R  
Center Lat x Lon: 41.0N x 91W
Film Exposure: N   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 5
 
Camera:: HB
 
Camera Tilt: 14   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 250  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: N   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: 165141   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 40.2N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 91.3W  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 130   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 208   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 66   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views:  
Water Views: RIVER  
Atmosphere Views:  
Man Made Views: DAM, AGRICULTURE, URBAN AREA  
City Views: BURLINGTON  

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