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Richard H. Truly
Title Richard H. Truly
Full Description Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly served as NASA Administrator from May 14, 1989 to March 31, 1992. Prior to becoming Administrator, Adm. Truly served as NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Flight. In this position, he led the painstaking rebuilding of the Space Shuttle program after the Challenger accident. Adm. Truly's career began in the Navy and in 1965 he became one of the first military astronauts selected to the Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory program in Los Angeles, California. He transferred to NASA as an astronaut in August 1969 then served as capsule communicator for all three Skylab missions in 1973 and the Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975. He was pilot for the 747/Space Shuttle Enterprise approach and landing test flights during 1977, and his first space flight was November 12-14, 1981, as pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-2). After leaving NASA, Adm. Truly became Vice President and Director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta.
Date UNKNOWN
NASA Center Headquarters
NASA's Hubble Space Telescop …
Title NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Resolves a Planetary Nebula in the Large Magellanic Could
General Information What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. The NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has imaged N66, a planetary nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud (a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way galaxy). The image was obtained at 10:41 p.m. EDT on June 26, 1991, using the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescop …
Title NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Yields Clear View of Optical Jet in Galaxy M87
General Information What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. A NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) view of a 4,000 light-year long jet of plasma emanating from the bright nucleus of the giant elliptical galaxy M87. This ultraviolet light image was made with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera (FOC), one of two imaging systems aboard HST.
Great Zoom into Atlanta, GA: …
Title Great Zoom into Atlanta, GA: The State Capitol Building
Abstract Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves floating in virtual space just above the ground.
Completed 2001-04-10
Great Zoom into Atlanta, GA: …
Title Great Zoom into Atlanta, GA: The State Capitol Building
Abstract Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves floating in virtual space just above the ground.
Completed 2001-04-10
Great Zoom into Atlanta, GA: …
Title Great Zoom into Atlanta, GA: The State Capitol Building
Abstract Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves floating in virtual space just above the ground.
Completed 2001-04-10
Great Zoom into Atlanta, GA: …
Title Great Zoom into Atlanta, GA: The State Capitol Building
Abstract Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves floating in virtual space just above the ground.
Completed 2001-04-10
Great Zoom into Atlanta, GA: …
Title Great Zoom into Atlanta, GA: The State Capitol Building
Abstract Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves floating in virtual space just above the ground.
Completed 2001-04-10
Great Zoom into Atlanta, GA: …
Title Great Zoom into Atlanta, GA: The State Capitol Building
Abstract Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves floating in virtual space just above the ground.
Completed 2001-04-10
Great Zoom into Atlanta, GA: …
Title Great Zoom into Atlanta, GA: The State Capitol Building
Abstract Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves floating in virtual space just above the ground.
Completed 2001-04-10
Urban Modifications of Rainf …
Title Urban Modifications of Rainfall, Alabama and Georgia
Abstract Using the world's first space-based rain radar aboard NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, NASA scientists found that mean monthly rainfall rates within 30-60 kilometers (18 to 36 miles) downwind of some cities were, on average, about 28 percent greater than the upwind region. In some cities, the downwind area exhibited increases as high as 51 percent.
Completed 2002-06-14
Urban Modifications of Rainf …
Title Urban Modifications of Rainfall, Georgia
Abstract Using the world's first space-based rain radar aboard NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, NASA scientists found that mean monthly rainfall rates within 30-60 kilometers (18 to 36 miles) downwind of some cities were, on average, about 28 percent greater than the upwind region. In some cities, the downwind area exhibited increases as high as 51 percent.
Completed 2002-06-14
Urban Modifications of Rainf …
Title Urban Modifications of Rainfall, Georgia
Abstract Using the world's first space-based rain radar aboard NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, NASA scientists found that mean monthly rainfall rates within 30-60 kilometers (18 to 36 miles) downwind of some cities were, on average, about 28 percent greater than the upwind region. In some cities, the downwind area exhibited increases as high as 51 percent.
Completed 2002-06-14
Atlanta Heat Island: Land Us …
Title Atlanta Heat Island: Land Use Map in Shades of Green
Completed 1999-04-09
Great Zoom out of Atlanta, G …
Title Great Zoom out of Atlanta, GA: The State Capitol Building
Abstract Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves floating in virtual space just above the ground.
Completed 2001-04-10
Great Zoom out of Atlanta, G …
Title Great Zoom out of Atlanta, GA: The State Capitol Building
Abstract Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves floating in virtual space just above the ground.
Completed 2001-04-10
Atlanta Heat Island: Slower …
Title Atlanta Heat Island: Slower Flyover, Blue TIR Data
Completed 1999-04-09
Atlanta Urban Growth from 19 …
Title Atlanta Urban Growth from 1984 to 1998 (in Gray)
Completed 1999-04-09
Atlanta Land Use Map: Green …
Title Atlanta Land Use Map: Green Scheme, Perspective Angle
Completed 1999-04-09
Atlanta Thermal Image (Blue …
Title Atlanta Thermal Image (Blue TIR, Straight Down)
Completed 1999-04-09
Atlanta Land Use Map: Green …
Title Atlanta Land Use Map: Green Scheme, Straight Down
Completed 1999-04-09
Atlanta Heat Island: Slower …
Title Atlanta Heat Island: Slower Flyover, Yellow TIR Data
Completed 1999-04-09
Atlanta Heat Island: Slower …
Title Atlanta Heat Island: Slower Flyover, Yellow TIR Data
Completed 1999-04-09
Atlanta Heat Island: Slower …
Title Atlanta Heat Island: Slower Flyover, Yellow TIR Data
Completed 1999-04-09
Atlanta Heat Island: Landsat …
Title Atlanta Heat Island: Landsat Land Use Classification and Thermal IR Data
Completed 1999-04-09
Atlanta Flyby with Opening L …
Title Atlanta Flyby with Opening Labels (542)
Abstract Atlanta with opening labels (542). This scene shows Landsat Thematic Mapper data from the shortwave infrared (TM band 5), infrared (TM band 4), and visible green( TM band 2) channels of Atlanta.
Completed 1999-04-09
Atlanta Thermal Image (Blue …
Title Atlanta Thermal Image (Blue TIR, Perspective Angle)
Completed 1999-04-09
Neal W. Shannon Greeted by A …
Name of Image Neal W. Shannon Greeted by Astronauts and MSFC Personnel
Date of Image 1972-06-02
Full Description Atlanta, Georgia high school student, Neal W. Shannon, is greeted by (left to right): Astronauts Russell L. Schweickart, and Owen K. Garriott, Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Skylab Program Manager, Leland Belew, and MSFC Director of Administration and Technical Services, David Newby, during a tour of MSFC. Shannon was among 25 winners of a contest in which some 3,500 high school students proposed experiments for the following year?s Skylab mission. The nationwide scientific competition was sponsored by the National Science Teachers Association and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The winning students, along with their parents and sponsor teachers, visited MSFC where they met with scientists and engineers, participated in design reviews for their experiments, and toured MSFC facilities. Of the 25 students, 6 did not see their experiments conducted on Skylab because the experiments were not compatible with Skylab hardware and timelines. Of the 19 remaining, 11 experiments required the manufacture of additional equipment.
Ultraviolet (UV) From Pulsar …
Name of Image Ultraviolet (UV) From Pulsars - Skylab Student Experiment ED-26
Date of Image 1973-01-01
Full Description This chart describes the Skylab student experiment Ultraviolet (UV) From Pulsars, proposed by Neal W. Sharnon of Atlanta, Georgia. This experiment was to observe several pulsars with Skylab's UV spectrometer to determine their intensities in that portion of their spectra. A more detailed description of a pulsar's electromagnetic emission profile would be expected to further define means by which its energy is released. Unfortunately, upon examination of the photographic plates containing the data from the experiment, it was found that an alignment error of the spectrometer prevented detection of any of the pulsars. In March 1972, NASA and the National Science Teachers Association selected 25 experiment proposals for flight on Skylab. Science advisors from the Marshall Space Flight Center aided and assisted the students in developing the proposals for flight on Skylab.
STS-78 Mission Insignia
Name of Image STS-78 Mission Insignia
Date of Image 1996-03-01
Full Description The STS-78 patch links past with present to tell the story of its mission and science through a design imbued with the strength and vitality of the 2-dimensional art of North America's northwest coast Indians. Central to the design is the space Shuttle whose bold lines and curves evoke the Indian image for the eagle, a native American symbol of power and prestige as well as the national symbol of the United States. The wings of the Shuttle suggest the wings of the eagle whose feathers, indicative of peace and friendship in Indian tradition, are captured by the U forms, a characteristic feature of Northwest coast Indian art. The nose of the Shuttle is the strong downward curve of the eagle's beak, and the Shuttle's forward windows, the eagle's eyes, represented through the tapered S forms again typical of this Indian art form. The basic black and red atoms orbiting the mission number recall the original NASA emblem while beneath, utilizing Indian ovoid forms, the major mission scientific experiment package LMS (Life and Materials Sciences) housed in the Shuttle's cargo bay is depicted in a manner reminiscent of totem-pole art. This image of a bird poised for flight, so common to Indian art, is counterpointed by an equally familiar Tsimshian Indian symbol, a pulsating sun with long hyperbolic rays, the symbol of life. Within each of these rays are now encased crystals, the products of this mission's 3 major, high-temperature materials processing furnaces. And as the sky in Indian lore is a lovely open country, home of the Sun Chief and accessible to travelers through a hole in the western horizon, so too, space is a vast and beckoning landscape for explorers launched beyond the horizon. Beneath the Tsimshian sun, the colors of the earth limb are appropriately enclosed by a red border representing life to the Northwest coast Indians. The Indian colors of red, navy blue, white, and black pervade the STS-78 path. To the right of the Shuttle-eagle, the constellation Delphinus recalls the dolphin, friend of ancient sailors and, now perhaps too, of the 9 space voyagers suggested by this constellation's blaze of 9 stars. The patch simultaneously celebrates international unity fostered by the Olympic spirit of sports competition at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. Deliberately poised over the city of Atlanta, the Space Shuttle glows at its base with the 5 official Olympic rings in the 5 Olympic colors which can also be found throughout the patch, rings and colors which signify the 5 continents of the earth. This is an international mission and for the first time in NASA patch history, astronauts have dispensed with identifying country flags beneath their names to celebrate the spirit of international unity so characteristic of this flight.
Urban Heat Island: Atlanta, …
Title Urban Heat Island: Atlanta, Georgia
Description Urbanization does more than just transform ecosystems, it also changes fundamental variables that influence weather and climate, such as land surface temperature, surface roughness, and evaporation. For many years scientists have documented the changes in land surface temperature that result when natural or agricultural vegetation is replaced with parking lots, streets, buildings. Urban areas can be up to 8 degrees warmer than surrounding suburban or natural landscapes. This urban heat island affects not only the amount of energy a city needs to keep its residents cool and comfortable, [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/GreenRoof ] but it also appears to influence where and how much it rains in the vicinity. This pair of Landsat satellite images provides two views of urban Atlanta, Georgia, on September 28, 2000, the urban core is in the center of the images. The top image is a photo-like view of the area, where trees and other vegetation are green, roads and dense development appear cement-gray, and bare ground appears tan or brown. The bottom image is a land surface temperature map, in which cooler temperatures are yellow and hotter temperatures are red. Because vegetation cools the surface through evaporation of water, the most densely vegetated areas (darkest green in top image) are the coolest areas (palest yellow in bottom image). Where development is densest, the land surface temperature is near 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit). Scientists suspect that the urban heat island effect may be one of the factors behind several studies showing that cities influence rainfall in their surrounding area. The heating of the surface and the overlying air creates instability in the atmosphere that encourages air to rise. As it rises, it cools, and water vapor condenses into rain that falls downwind of the city. Since the launch of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite—a joint NASA-Japanese mission—, observations of rainfall in the Studies of regional rainfall patterns in the U.S. Southeast have shown that rainfall downwind of major urban areas can be as much as 20 percent greater than it is upwind areas. To learn more about how the urban heat island and other city traits such as pollution and topography may be influencing rainfall, please read the feature story Urban Rain. [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/UrbanRain/ ] NASA images by Marit Jentoft-Nilsen, based on Landsat-7 [ http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] data.
Urban Heat Island: Atlanta, …
Title Urban Heat Island: Atlanta, Georgia
Description Urbanization does more than just transform ecosystems, it also changes fundamental variables that influence weather and climate, such as land surface temperature, surface roughness, and evaporation. For many years scientists have documented the changes in land surface temperature that result when natural or agricultural vegetation is replaced with parking lots, streets, buildings. Urban areas can be up to 8 degrees warmer than surrounding suburban or natural landscapes. This urban heat island affects not only the amount of energy a city needs to keep its residents cool and comfortable, [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/GreenRoof ] but it also appears to influence where and how much it rains in the vicinity. This pair of Landsat satellite images provides two views of urban Atlanta, Georgia, on September 28, 2000, the urban core is in the center of the images. The top image is a photo-like view of the area, where trees and other vegetation are green, roads and dense development appear cement-gray, and bare ground appears tan or brown. The bottom image is a land surface temperature map, in which cooler temperatures are yellow and hotter temperatures are red. Because vegetation cools the surface through evaporation of water, the most densely vegetated areas (darkest green in top image) are the coolest areas (palest yellow in bottom image). Where development is densest, the land surface temperature is near 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit). Scientists suspect that the urban heat island effect may be one of the factors behind several studies showing that cities influence rainfall in their surrounding area. The heating of the surface and the overlying air creates instability in the atmosphere that encourages air to rise. As it rises, it cools, and water vapor condenses into rain that falls downwind of the city. Since the launch of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite—a joint NASA-Japanese mission—, observations of rainfall in the Studies of regional rainfall patterns in the U.S. Southeast have shown that rainfall downwind of major urban areas can be as much as 20 percent greater than it is upwind areas. To learn more about how the urban heat island and other city traits such as pollution and topography may be influencing rainfall, please read the feature story Urban Rain. [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/UrbanRain/ ] NASA images by Marit Jentoft-Nilsen, based on Landsat-7 [ http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] data.
Urban Heat Island: Atlanta, …
Title Urban Heat Island: Atlanta, Georgia
Description Urbanization does more than just transform ecosystems, it also changes fundamental variables that influence weather and climate, such as land surface temperature, surface roughness, and evaporation. For many years scientists have documented the changes in land surface temperature that result when natural or agricultural vegetation is replaced with parking lots, streets, buildings. Urban areas can be up to 8 degrees warmer than surrounding suburban or natural landscapes. This urban heat island affects not only the amount of energy a city needs to keep its residents cool and comfortable, [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/GreenRoof ] but it also appears to influence where and how much it rains in the vicinity. This pair of Landsat satellite images provides two views of urban Atlanta, Georgia, on September 28, 2000, the urban core is in the center of the images. The top image is a photo-like view of the area, where trees and other vegetation are green, roads and dense development appear cement-gray, and bare ground appears tan or brown. The bottom image is a land surface temperature map, in which cooler temperatures are yellow and hotter temperatures are red. Because vegetation cools the surface through evaporation of water, the most densely vegetated areas (darkest green in top image) are the coolest areas (palest yellow in bottom image). Where development is densest, the land surface temperature is near 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit). Scientists suspect that the urban heat island effect may be one of the factors behind several studies showing that cities influence rainfall in their surrounding area. The heating of the surface and the overlying air creates instability in the atmosphere that encourages air to rise. As it rises, it cools, and water vapor condenses into rain that falls downwind of the city. Since the launch of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite—a joint NASA-Japanese mission—, observations of rainfall in the Studies of regional rainfall patterns in the U.S. Southeast have shown that rainfall downwind of major urban areas can be as much as 20 percent greater than it is upwind areas. To learn more about how the urban heat island and other city traits such as pollution and topography may be influencing rainfall, please read the feature story Urban Rain. [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/UrbanRain/ ] NASA images by Marit Jentoft-Nilsen, based on Landsat-7 [ http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] data.
Urban Heat Island: Atlanta, …
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Urbanization does more than …
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mediatype IMAGE
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date 2000-09-28
creator NASA -- NASA images by Marit Jentoft-Nilsen, based on landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Landsat-7 data.
identifier atlanta_etm_2000241
California Temperatures on t …
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Average temperatures in Cali …
california_temperature
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2005
creator NASA -- NASA image adapted by Robert Simmon, based on data from Richard Medina, University of Utah (map), and Bill Patzert, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (graph.)
identifier california_temperature
2007 Rainfall Patterns in Un …
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The rainfall pattern across …
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date 2007
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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2007 Rainfall Patterns in Un …
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The rainfall pattern across …
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creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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General Description STS-90 Shuttle Mission Imagery
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - …
Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A teacher (right) at Ralph Bunche Middle School, a NASA Explorer School, in Atlanta, Ga., shows a science project to astronaut Rick Linnehan (left) and Center Director Jim Kennedy (center). Linnehan and Kennedy were at the school to share America?s new vision for space exploration with the next generation of explorers. The visit is one of many Kennedy has made to NES sites in Florida and Georgia to talk with students about our destiny as explorers, NASA?s stepping stone approach to exploring Earth, the Moon, Mars and beyond, how space impacts our lives, and how people and machines rely on each other in space.
Release Date 04/13/2004
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - …
Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Astronaut Rick Linnehan talks to students in a classroom at Ralph Bunche Middle School, a NASA Explorer School, in Atlanta, Ga. Linnehan accompanied Center Director Jim Kennedy, who was visiting the school to share America?s new vision for space exploration with the next generation of explorers. The visit is one of many Kennedy has made to NES sites in Florida and Georgia to talk with students about our destiny as explorers, NASA?s stepping stone approach to exploring Earth, the Moon, Mars and beyond, how space impacts our lives, and how people and machines rely on each other in space.
Release Date 04/13/2004
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - …
Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Astronaut Rick Linnehan talks to a classroom teacher at Ralph Bunche Middle School, a NASA Explorer School, in Atlanta, Ga. Linnehan accompanied Center Director Jim Kennedy, who was visiting the school to share America?s new vision for space exploration with the next generation of explorers. The visit is one of many Kennedy has made to NES sites in Florida and Georgia to talk with students about our destiny as explorers, NASA?s stepping stone approach to exploring Earth, the Moon, Mars and beyond, how space impacts our lives, and how people and machines rely on each other in space.
Release Date 04/13/2004
Southern Appalachia, USA
Title Southern Appalachia, USA
Description In this oblique view of the Georgia and South Carolina coast, the southern most Appalachians (32.0N, 83.0W) dominate the foreground. Contrails criss cross over Atlanta, a major airline hub. The coastal plain which wraps around the southern Appalachians, is well delineated. Faintly visible under the haze toward Earth's limb are the Great lakes (Lake Michigan near center), the folded belts of the central Appalachians and Long Island, New York.
Date Taken 1990-04-29
STS-56 ESC Earth observation …
Title STS-56 ESC Earth observation of Atlanta, Georgia at night
Description STS-56 electronic still camera (ESC) Earth observation image shows metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia at night as recorded on the 64th orbit of Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103. The image was recorded using an image intensifier on the Hand-held, Earth-oriented, Real-time, Cooperative, User-friendly, Location-targeting and Environmental System (HERCULES). HERCULES is a device that makes it simple for shuttle crewmembers to take pictures of Earth as they merely point a modified 35mm camera and shoot any interesting feature, whose latitude and longitude are automatically determined in real-time. Center coordinates on this image are 33.738 degrees north latitude and 84.414 degrees west longitude. Digital file name is ESC04030.IMG.
Date Taken 1993-04-17
Atlanta, Georgia as seen fro …
Title Atlanta, Georgia as seen from STS-62
Description Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport is visible to the south of Atlanta, situated near the center of the photograph. Dobbins Air Force Base and the city of Marietta can also be seen to the north of Atlanta in this south-looking low-oblique view. The complex system of transportation routes and interstate highways surrounding and traversing Atlanta can also be seen in the photograph. The white dot near the center of the photograph is the Georgia Dome, a major sports and entertainment complex in downtown Atlanta. The Stone Mountain Memorial, with its enormous relief carvings of Confederate figures, is located east of Atlanta and is visible on the photograph.
Date Taken 1994-03-09
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