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LOCATION Direction Photo #: STS062-83-9 Date: Mar. 1994
Geographic Region: USA-KENTUCKY
Feature: L. BARKLEY & KENTUCKY L.


IMAGE
 
STS062-083-009 Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley, Kentucky, U.S.A. March 1994
The northern ends of two long reservoirs, Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley, are visible in this northwest-looking, low-oblique photograph of western Kentucky. Westernmost Kentucky Lake is fed by the Tennessee River; Lake Barkley is part of the Cumberland River drainage basin. Each lake has a dam and channel that allow water to flow into the Ohio River, which makes a U-turn at this location. The heavily wooded peninsula between the lakes is called locally "the land between the lakes." Both lakes are under the aegis of the Tennessee Valley Authority, which was created to provide hydroelectric power, improve navigation of the rivers, and reduce flooding on the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers and some of their tributaries. Most of the region east of the lakes is hilly; west of the lakes the landscape becomes a plain.


Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 414k
Mission: STS062  
Roll - Frame: 83 - 9
Geographical Name: USA-KENTUCKY  
Features: L. BARKLEY & KENTUCKY L.  
Center Lat x Lon: 37.0N x 88W
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: 48   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?: Y   Y=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't
Orbit Number: 18  
 
Date: 19940305   YYYYMMDD
Time: 154111   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 37.7N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 85.1W  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 138   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 161   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 37   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: HILL  
Water Views: RIVER, LAKE  
Atmosphere Views:  
Man Made Views:  
City Views:  

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