Photo #: STS062-104-94 Date: Mar. 1994 Geographic Region: USA-CALIFORNIA Feature: SACRAMENTO |
STS062-104-094 Sacramento, California, U.S.A. March 1994 Sacramento, the capital of California, appears in this near-vertical photograph. A deep water port, via a channel to Suisun Bay, Sacramento is the major shipping, rail, processing, and marketing center for the truck farms of the Sacramento Valley. The Sacramento River approaches the city from the north. The American River travels eastward through Folsom Lake to the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. The discovery of gold at Sutters Mill in 1848, just east of Folsom Lake, started the 1849 California Gold Rush. Sacramento was the western terminus of the Pony Express in the 1850s and early 1860s. |
Images: | All Available Images Low-Resolution 356k |
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Mission: | STS062 |
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Roll - Frame: | 104 - 94 |
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Geographical Name: | USA-CALIFORNIA |
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Features: | SACRAMENTO |
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Center Lat x Lon: | 38.5N x 121.5W |
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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: | 21 | 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: | 51 |
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Date: | 19940307 | YYYYMMDD |
Time: | 172536 | GMT HHMMSS |
Nadir Lat: | 38.3N |
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Nadir Lon: | 122.5W |
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
Sun Azimuth: | 127 | Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point |
Space Craft Altitude: | 161 | nautical miles |
Sun Elevation: | 31 | Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point |
Land Views: | VALLEY |
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Water Views: | LAKE |
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Atmosphere Views: | |
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Man Made Views: | AGRICULTURE, URBAN AREA |
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City Views: | SACRAMENTO |
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Photo is not associated with any sequences |
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