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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Collection
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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Collection
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SRTM/Swath Comparison
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SRTM/Swath Comparison
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NASA/JPL-Caltech
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NASA/JPL-Caltech
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This image shows a 40-kilometer (25-mile) wide strip of digital topographic data superimposed on an optical photograph of the western United States. Both images were acquired during the STS-68 flight in October 1994. The digital data were acquired by the Spaceborne Imaging Radar C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture radar system, while the photograph was taken by the Space Shuttle astronauts. The view is looking to the east from above California's central valley (the dark area seen at the bottom of the image) across the snow-covered Sierra Nevada Mountains to the basin and range province of western Nevada. In the strip of topographic data, the different colors indicate elevation, with green being lowest and white being highest. The swath covers blue-colored Lake Tahoe on the left (north) and Mono Lake on the right. For comparison, the white lines indicate the 225- kilometer (140-mile) wide swath that will be mapped in a single pass by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mapper (SRTM) instrument, now scheduled to fly on the Space Shuttle in May 2000. The ability to cover a swath this wide will allow SRTM to completely map all the land surface between plus and minus 60 degrees latitude in a single 11-day flight. This is about 80% of Earth's total land area. SRTM, is a cooperative project between NASA and the Defense Mapping Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense that will be managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Mission to Planet Earth. #####
Description
This image shows a 40-kilometer (25-mile) wide strip of digital topographic data superimposed on an optical photograph of the western United States. Both images were acquired during the STS-68 flight in October 1994. The digital data were acquired by the Spaceborne Imaging Radar C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture radar system, while the photograph was taken by the Space Shuttle astronauts. The view is looking to the east from above California's central valley (the dark area seen at the bottom of the image) across the snow-covered Sierra Nevada Mountains to the basin and range province of western Nevada. In the strip of topographic data, the different colors indicate elevation, with green being lowest and white being highest. The swath covers blue-colored Lake Tahoe on the left (north) and Mono Lake on the right. For comparison, the white lines indicate the 225- kilometer (140-mile) wide swath that will be mapped in a single pass by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mapper (SRTM) instrument, now scheduled to fly on the Space Shuttle in May 2000. The ability to cover a swath this wide will allow SRTM to completely map all the land surface between plus and minus 60 degrees latitude in a single 11-day flight. This is about 80% of Earth's total land area. SRTM, is a cooperative project between NASA and the Defense Mapping Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense that will be managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Mission to Planet Earth. #####
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Date:
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7/15/96
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Identifier:
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P-47009
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P-47009
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1996
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JPL Archives
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JPL Archives
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What:
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Spaceborne Imaging Radar
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Spaceborne Imaging Radar
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Radar System
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C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
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C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
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Space Shuttle Orbiter
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Space Shuttle Orbiter
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SRTM
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United States of America
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United States of America
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Nevada
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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