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LOCATION Direction Photo #: STS61B-52-42 Date: Dec. 1985
Geographic Region: USA-TEXAS
Feature: FALFURRIAS, KINGSVILLE


IMAGE
 
STS61B-052-0042 Kingsville and South Texas Coastal Plain, Texas, U.S.A. November 1985
Kingsville, 34 miles (55 kilometers) southwest of Corpus Christi (not in photograph), is featured in this north-northwest-looking, low-oblique photograph. Most of the healthy (red) vegetation in this color infrared photograph is part of gigantic King Ranch that encompasses more than 2000 square miles (5180 square kilometers). Kingsville, headquarters for the vast King Ranch, is a processing center for farm products, oil, and natural gas.


Images: All Available Images Low-Resolution 390k
Mission: STS61B  
Roll - Frame: 52 - 42
Geographical Name: USA-TEXAS  
Features: FALFURRIAS, KINGSVILLE  
Center Lat x Lon: 27.5N x 98W
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: 12   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: 93  
 
Date: 19851202   YYYYMMDD
Time: 205940   GMT HHMMSS
Nadir Lat: 26.9N  
Latitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Nadir Lon: 97.9W  
Longitude of suborbital point of spacecraft
Sun Azimuth: 221   Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point
Space Craft Altitude: 173   nautical miles
Sun Elevation: 27   Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point
Land Views: PLAIN  
Water Views:  
Atmosphere Views:  
Man Made Views: AGRICULTURE, DRILLING  
City Views:  

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