Photo #: STS51B-146-119 Date: na 1985Geographic Region: USA-UTAH
Feature: GR. SALT LAKE, EDDY
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Photo #: STS51B-146-119 Date: na 1985 Geographic Region: USA-UTAH Feature: GR. SALT LAKE, EDDY |
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| STS51B-146-0119 Great Salt Lake, Utah, U.S.A. May 1985 The Great Salt Lake, the largest salt lake in North America, is featured in this spectacular, south-southeast-looking, low-oblique photograph. The lake is a remnant of a much larger prehistoric lake that covered portions of present-day Idaho, Nevada, and Utah 12 000 years ago. Dependent on precipitation, the Great Salt Lake fluctuates in size seasonally and yearly. This photograph shows a water level higher than usual because of above-normal precipitation in preceding years. A railway causeway bisects the lake--the northern, greenish half with a higher concentration of salt is much shallower than the bluish southern half. Visible counterclockwise from the upper left corner are the snowcapped Wasatch Range; center-pivot irrigation fields; and the Great Salt Lake Desert, once the floor of ancient Lake Bonneville. |
| Images: | All Available Images Low-Resolution 259k |
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| Mission: | STS51B |
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| Roll - Frame: | 146 - 119 |
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| Geographical Name: | USA-UTAH |
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| Features: | GR. SALT LAKE, EDDY |
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| Center Lat x Lon: | 41.2N x 112.8W |
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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:: | LH |
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| Camera Tilt: | LO | LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical |
| Camera Focal Length: | 250 |
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| Nadir to Photo Center Direction: | The direction from the nadir to the center point, N=North, S=South, E=East, W=West |
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| Stereo?: | Y | Y=Yes there is an adjacent picture of the same area, N=No there isn't |
| Orbit Number: | 34 |
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| Date: | 1985____ | YYYYMMDD |
| Time: | GMT HHMMSS |
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| 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 |
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| Space Craft Altitude: | nautical miles |
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| Sun Elevation: | Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point |
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| Land Views: | DESERT, BASIN |
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| Water Views: | LAKE |
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