Photo #: STS047-96-66 Date: Sep. 1992 Geographic Region: USA-OREGON Feature: PORTLAND AREA |
STS047-096-066 Portland and Willamette River, Oregon, U.S.A. September 1992 This west-looking, low-oblique photograph shows the metropolitan area of the "City of Roses," Portland, Oregon. South of the Columbia River (center of the photograph), Portland lies on the Willamette River just 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the river's confluence with the Columbia River. Portland, an important deepwater port with many shipyards, is also a leading financial and industrial center. Manufacturing industries include lumber, wood products, paper, metals, machinery, foodstuffs, woolen textiles, clothing, electronic components, dairy products, paint, and furniture. The city served as a major supply center during the gold rushes in California in the late 1840s and in Alaska in the late 1880s and 1890s. Vancouver, Washington, visible on the north bank of the Columbia River opposite Portland, is also a deepwater port with many shipyards, shipbuilding facilities, lumber mills, and an enormous grain elevator. Vancouver is headquarters for the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in which Mount Saint Helens Volcano is located. The Willamette River, 294 miles (473 kilometers) long, rises in the Cascade Range of southern Oregon and flows north through the wide, fertile Willamette Valley, a major fruit-growing and dairy-producing region. Numerous dams and reservoirs have harnessed the river and its tributaries to provide flood control, navigation, and hydroelectric power production. |
Images: | All Available Images Low-Resolution 152k |
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Mission: | STS047 |
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Roll - Frame: | 96 - 66 |
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Geographical Name: | USA-OREGON |
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Features: | PORTLAND AREA |
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Center Lat x Lon: | 45.5N x 122.5W |
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Film Exposure: | N | N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus |
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: | 0 |
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Camera:: | HB |
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Camera Tilt: | 27 | LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical |
Camera Focal Length: | 250 |
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Nadir to Photo Center Direction: | E | The direction from the nadir to the center point, N=North, S=South, E=East, W=West |
Stereo?: | N | Y=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't |
Orbit Number: | 82 |
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Date: | 19920917 | YYYYMMDD |
Time: | 164936 | GMT HHMMSS |
Nadir Lat: | 45.6N |
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Nadir Lon: | 123.9W |
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Sun Azimuth: | 119 | Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point |
Space Craft Altitude: | 168 | nautical miles |
Sun Elevation: | 28 | Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point |
Land Views: | HILL, PLAIN |
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Water Views: | RIVER |
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Atmosphere Views: | |
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Man Made Views: | AIRPORT, URBAN AREA |
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City Views: | PORTLAND |
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Photo is not associated with any sequences |
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