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LOCATION Direction Photo #: STS51B-53-19 Date: na 1985
Geographic Region: USA-GEORGIA
Feature: DALTON, CHATTANOOGA


IMAGE
 
STS51B-53-0019 Dalton Area, Georgia, U.S.A. May 1985
Apparent in this southeast-looking photograph is sunglint on light, irregular-shaped Carters Lake within the heavily forested Chattahochee National Forest of northwest Georgia. Also visible are numerous dark, forested, paralleling ridgelines and intervening valleys oriented in a northeast-southwest direction. Discernible are highly reflective Dalton and Calhoun (near center of the photograph) and extending southeast from Chattanooga, Tennessee, narrow, linear highways (bottom left side), including Interstate Highway 75.


Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 391k
Mission: STS51B  
Roll - Frame: 53 - 19
Geographical Name: USA-GEORGIA  
Features: DALTON, CHATTANOOGA  
Center Lat x Lon: 34.5N x 85W
Film Exposure: N   N=Normal exposure, U=Under exposed, O=Over exposed, F=out of Focus
Percentage of Cloud Cover-CLDP: 10
 
Camera:: HB
 
Camera Tilt: NV   LO=Low Oblique, HO=High Oblique, NV=Near Vertical
Camera Focal Length: 250  
 
Nadir to Photo Center Direction:   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: 79  
 
Date: 1985____   YYYYMMDD
Time:   GMT HHMMSS
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
Space Craft Altitude:   nautical miles
Sun Elevation:   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: FOREST, VALLEY, MOUNTAIN  
Water Views: LAKE  
Atmosphere Views:  
Man Made Views:  
City Views:  

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