Photo #: STS059-154-160 Date: Apr. 1994Geographic Region: USA-CALIFORNIA
Feature: MONO L,SIERRA NEVADA,RIV
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Photo #: STS059-154-160 Date: Apr. 1994 Geographic Region: USA-CALIFORNIA Feature: MONO L,SIERRA NEVADA,RIV |
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| STS059-154-160 Sierra Nevada Mountains and Mono Lake, California, U.S.A. April 1994 The snow-covered central Sierra Nevada Mountains are featured in this low-oblique, west-looking photograph. Spring-fed, saline Mono Lake is visible near the lower right. Abundant snowmelt in the spring and early summer is important for filling rivers, lakes, and reservoirs that provide the state's drinking and agricultural water supplies. Runoffs east of the range provide irrigation for small agriculture tracts in the western portions of Nevada. View is oriented with Mono Lake, California at the lower right; then the view is westward across the Sierra Nevada into the San Joaquin River drainage. A tine network of ski trails can be seen on the Mono Lake side of the Sierras, on a line between Mono Lake and the snow-free San Joaquin headwaters. The ski trails mark Mammoth Mountain, where Space Radar Laboratory (SRL) investigators are studying microwave measurements of the water content of snowpacks. |
| Images: | All Available Images Low-Resolution 277k |
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| Mission: | STS059 |
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| Roll - Frame: | 154 - 160 |
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| Geographical Name: | USA-CALIFORNIA |
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| Features: | MONO L,SIERRA NEVADA,RIV |
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| Center Lat x Lon: | 37.5N x 119W |
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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: | 5 |
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| Camera:: | LH |
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| Camera Tilt: | 30 | LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical |
| Camera Focal Length: | 250 |
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| 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 | Y=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't |
| Orbit Number: | 40 |
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| Date: | 19940411 | YYYYMMDD |
| Time: | 211927 | GMT HHMMSS |
| Nadir Lat: | 38.3N |
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
| Nadir Lon: | 118.2W |
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
| Sun Azimuth: | 219 | Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point |
| Space Craft Altitude: | 119 | nautical miles |
| Sun Elevation: | 55 | Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point |
| Land Views: | MOUNTAIN, FAULT |
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| Water Views: | LAKE |
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