Photo #: STS059-89-31 Date: Apr. 1994 Geographic Region: USA-MONTANA Feature: YELLOWSTONE RIVER |
STS059-089-031 Missouri River and Yellowstone River, North Dakota, U.S.A. April 1994 The Yellowstone River, one of the main tributaries of the upper Missouri River, is visible entering the Missouri River near the North Dakota-Montana border in this south-looking, low-oblique photograph. During the ice age, the Missouri River was the boundary between glaciers to the north and ice-free land to the south. Apparent in the photograph are the western end of Lake Sakakawea [200 miles (322 kilometers) long] and scattered agricultural field patterns. With the discovery of rich oil reserves nearby in 1951, the small city of Williston on the north side of the Missouri River (barely discernible in the center of the photograph) increased in importance. It is a trade, processing, and shipping center for the agricultural region and has an oil refinery, stockyards, grain elevators, and dairy processing plants. The area has large reserves of lignite, natural gas, salt, and leonite. |
Images: | All Available Images Low-Resolution 352k |
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Mission: | STS059 |
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Roll - Frame: | 89 - 31 |
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Geographical Name: | USA-MONTANA |
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Features: | YELLOWSTONE RIVER |
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Center Lat x Lon: | 48.0N x 103.5W |
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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: | 54 | LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical |
Camera Focal Length: | 250 |
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Nadir to Photo Center Direction: | NE | 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: | 23 |
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Date: | 19940410 | YYYYMMDD |
Time: | 200605 | GMT HHMMSS |
Nadir Lat: | 46.4N |
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Nadir Lon: | 105.7W |
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Sun Azimuth: | 204 | Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point |
Space Craft Altitude: | 119 | nautical miles |
Sun Elevation: | 50 | Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point |
Land Views: | PLAIN |
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Water Views: | RIVER, LAKE |
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Atmosphere Views: | |
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Man Made Views: | AGRICULTURE |
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City Views: | |
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Photo is not associated with any sequences |
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