Photo #: STS078-758-44 Date: Jun. 1996Geographic Region: USA-TENNESSEE
Feature: LAKE CUMBERLAND
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Photo #: STS078-758-44 Date: Jun. 1996 Geographic Region: USA-TENNESSEE Feature: LAKE CUMBERLAND |
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| STS078-758-044 Lake Cumberland, Kentucky, USA June 1996 Lake Cumberland (dark, irregular-shaped feature) was created by building the Wolf Creek Dam on the Cumberland River in south-central Kentucky. The color infrared film helps to discriminate the land-water boundaries, even allowing the identification of many of the tributary streams that flow into the Cumberland River. The twisting and turning stream channels of the Fishing Creek and the South Fork of the Cumberland River are visible towards the eastern end of the lake. The heavily forested, deep red areas (representing green vegetation) are visible with the greatest concentration south of Lake Cumberland. The uniform-looking, reddish color that dominates the scene is a dense forested canopy, while the lighter-colored areas (irregular pattern) indicate a landscape where the forests have been removed. U. S. Highway 27 is the light-colored, linear feature (north-south orientation) that can be traced through the rural, wooded landscape in the northeastern quadrant of the image. Even a section of the Cumberland Parkway, an east-west toll road, is visible north of Lake Cumberland. |
| Images: | All Available Images Low-Resolution 404k |
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| Mission: | STS078 |
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| Roll - Frame: | 758 - 44 |
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| Geographical Name: | USA-TENNESSEE |
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| Features: | LAKE CUMBERLAND |
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| Center Lat x Lon: | 36.5N x 85W |
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| Film Exposure: | N | N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus |
| Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: | 0 |
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| Camera:: | HB |
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| Camera Tilt: | 27 | LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical |
| Camera Focal Length: | 250 |
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| Nadir to Photo Center Direction: | W | 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: | 114 |
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| Date: | 19960627 | YYYYMMDD |
| Time: | 161528 | GMT HHMMSS |
| Nadir Lat: | 36.8N |
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
| Nadir Lon: | 83.8W |
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft |
| Sun Azimuth: | 121 | Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point |
| Space Craft Altitude: | 144 | nautical miles |
| Sun Elevation: | 68 | Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point |
| Land Views: | FOREST |
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| Water Views: | RIVER, LAKE |
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| Atmosphere Views: | |
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| Man Made Views: | HIGHWAY |
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| City Views: | |
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