Photo #: STS058-82-60 Date: Oct. 1993Geographic Region: USA-CALIFORNIA
Feature: SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS
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Photo #: STS058-82-60 Date: Oct. 1993 Geographic Region: USA-CALIFORNIA Feature: SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS |
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| STS058-082-060 Mount Whitney and Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, U.S.A. October 1993 Mount Whitney [(14 491 feet) (4417 meters)], part of the snowcapped Sierra Nevada Mountains, is the highest peak in the contiguous 48 states. The sharp crest lines of the granite rocks are vivid evidence that these mountains were carved by past ice age glaciers. The north-south-aligned, U-shaped Kern River Valley, easily recognizable by the deep shadows cast on the valley walls, is actually a fault where glaciation further modified and produced a valley. The headwaters of Kings River Canyon, an east-west feature, lies north of the source for the Kern River. |
| Images: | All Available Images Low-Resolution 416k |
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| Mission: | STS058 |
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| Roll - Frame: | 82 - 60 |
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| Geographical Name: | USA-CALIFORNIA |
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| Features: | SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS |
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| Center Lat x Lon: | 36.5N x 118.5W |
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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: | 30 | LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical |
| Camera Focal Length: | 100 |
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| 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: | 194 |
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| Date: | 19931030 | YYYYMMDD |
| Time: | 163250 | GMT HHMMSS |
| Nadir Lat: | 35.1N |
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
| Nadir Lon: | 118.4W |
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: | 143 | nautical miles |
| Sun Elevation: | 24 | Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point |
| Land Views: | MOUNTAIN, FAULT, FOREST |
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