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LOCATION Direction Photo #: STS073-760-26 Date: Oct. 1995
Geographic Region: USA-CALIFORNIA
Feature: EDWARDS AFB, MOJAVE DES.


IMAGE
 
STS073-760-026 Rogers Dry Lake, California, U.S.A. October 1995
Highly reflective Rogers Dry Lake, near the center of the photograph, is composed of a hard clay surface so strong that the NASA fleet of Space Shuttles uses this facility as an alternate landing site. Discernible are several manmade features surrounding the lake--one of the major runways of Edwards Air Force Base, west of the lake; California Highway 58, the thin east-west artery to the north; borax mining and mineral extraction plants to the northeast; light and dark field patterns of irrigated agriculture to the south and southwest; and Rosamond Dry Lake to the southwest.


Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 263k
Mission: STS073  
Roll - Frame: 760 - 26
Geographical Name: USA-CALIFORNIA  
Features: EDWARDS AFB, MOJAVE DES.  
Center Lat x Lon: 35.0N 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: 9   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 250  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: NE   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: 164  
 
Date: 19951030   YYYYMMDD
Time: 163502   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 34.8N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 118.3W  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 130   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 142   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 25   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: DESERT  
Water Views: PLAYA  
Atmosphere Views:  
Man Made Views: AIRPORT  
City Views:  

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