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LOCATION Direction Photo #: STS060-83-28 Date: Feb. 1994
Geographic Region: USA-TEXAS
Feature: SALT FLATS, EL CAPITAN, AGRICULTURE


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STS060-083-028 Salt Basin, Texas, U.S.A. February 1994
Featured in this photograph is the highly reflective, arid, west Texas Salt Basin. During wetter times these salt flats were water-filled lakes. Apparent are irrigated field patterns (center of photograph); dark, circular volcanic domes (laccoliths) west of the cultivated fields; and the southern extent of the Guadalupe Mountains, including El Capitan and Guadalupe Peak, the highest elevation in Texas [8751 feet (2667 meters) above sea level].


Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 328k
Mission: STS060  
Roll - Frame: 83 - 28
Geographical Name: USA-TEXAS  
Features: SALT FLATS, EL CAPITAN, AGRICULTURE  
Center Lat x Lon: 31.5N x 105W
Film Exposure: N   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 0
 
Camera:: HB
 
Camera Tilt: 21   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 250  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: W   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: 116  
 
Date: 19940210   YYYYMMDD
Time: 201057   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 31.7N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 103.8W  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 200   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 192   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 42   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: DESERT, MOUNTAIN  
Water Views: PLAYA  
Atmosphere Views:  
Man Made Views: AGRICULTURE  
City Views:  

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