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LOCATION Direction Photo #: STS073-744-50 Date: Oct. 1995
Geographic Region: USA-CALIFORNIA
Feature: LOS ANGELES AREA, COAST


IMAGE
 
STS073-744-050 Southern Metropolitan Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. October 1995
This photograph, except for the hilly regions in the southeastern quadrant, Chino Hills, and Puente Hills, features one of the world's most densely populated urban areas. Many of the larger commercial and industrial complexes of southeastern metropolitan Los Angeles can be identified by their highly reflective surfaces (concrete and steel). By contrast, the isolated reddish areas map parks and golf courses. Many of the white, highly reflective linear features are combinations of river courses (concrete aqueducts) and the major freeways that parallel them--the Santa Ana, San Gabriel, and Los Angeles Rivers have accompanying freeways (Riverside, San Gabriel, and Long Beach, respectively). Visible are two major harbor facilities along the Long Beach coast and a vast street grid pattern that characterizes this dynamic region.


Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 387k
Mission: STS073  
Roll - Frame: 744 - 50
Geographical Name: USA-CALIFORNIA  
Features: LOS ANGELES AREA, COAST  
Center Lat x Lon: 34.0N x 118W
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: 13   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 250  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: N   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: 181951   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 33.5N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 117.8W  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 156   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 144   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 40   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: COAST, FAULT  
Water Views:  
Atmosphere Views:  
Man Made Views: URBAN AREA  
City Views: LOS ANGELES  

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