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LOCATION Direction Photo #: STS068-229-7 Date: na 1994
Geographic Region: USA-ALASKA
Feature: BRADY GLACIER, GLACIER BAY


IMAGE
 
STS068-229-007 Brady Glacier and Glacier Bay, Alaska, U.S.A. October 1994
Several valley glaciers are apparent throughout Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, named for Glacier Bay, the water inlet that parallels the eastern coast of the peninsula. This national park has approximately 16 tidewater glaciers and is accessible by plane or boat from Juneau, 50 miles (81 kilometers) away. Brady Glacier, the most prominent glacier, extends in a generally north-south orientation to the southern end of the peninsula. Visible are numerous sediment plumes carrying fine-grained silt to the Gulf of Alaska to the west; Cross Sound, shown at the bottom of the photograph, that connects the Gulf of Alaska with Glacier Bay; and the snow-covered Fairweather Range along the coast that includes Mount Fairweather [elevation 15 300 feet (4663 meters) above sea level].


Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 348k
Mission: STS068  
Roll - Frame: 229 - 7
Geographical Name: USA-ALASKA  
Features: BRADY GLACIER, GLACIER BAY  
Center Lat x Lon: 59.0N x 137W
Film Exposure: N   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 5
 
Camera:: HB
 
Camera Tilt: LO   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 40  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction:   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:  
 
Date: 1994____   YYYYMMDD
Time:   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: E  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth:   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude:   nautical miles
Sun Elevation:   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: GLACIER, MOUNTAIN  
Water Views: BAY  
Atmosphere Views:  
Man Made Views:  
City Views:  

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