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LOCATION Direction Photo #: STS073-744-44 Date: Oct. 1995
Geographic Region: USA-CALIFORNIA
Feature: POINT ARGUELLO, CITIES


IMAGE
 
STS073-744-044 Coast Mountains and Point Arguello, California, U.S.A. November 1995
The color infrared film used in this photograph accentuates the rugged topography of coastal southwestern California near Point Arguello, the large promontory in the Pacific Ocean. Discernible are cultivated field patterns around Santa Maria and the western end of the Santa Ynez Mountains that parallel the California coastline. A small cluster of irrigated agriculture fields appears immediately west of Lompoc near the mouth of the Santa Ynez River. The brighter reds show irrigated crops, and deeper reds show native or natural vegetation. Two runways are visible--the long northwest-southeast-oriented runway of Vandenberg Air Force Base near the coast northwest of Lompoc and a V-shaped runway just south of Santa Maria.


Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 317k
Mission: STS073  
Roll - Frame: 744 - 44
Geographical Name: USA-CALIFORNIA  
Features: POINT ARGUELLO, CITIES  
Center Lat x Lon: 34.5N x 120.5W
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: 3   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 250  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: NW   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: 117  
 
Date: 19951027   YYYYMMDD
Time: 181915   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 34.4N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 120.4W  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 153   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 144   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 39   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: COAST, MOUNTAIN  
Water Views:  
Atmosphere Views:  
Man Made Views: AIRPORT  
City Views:  

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