ISS_View_of_the_Southwestern_USA.JPG
Summary
Description ISS View of the Southwestern USA.JPG |
English:
This panoramic view of the south-western
United States
and
Pacific Ocean
was taken by an astronaut looking out at an angle from the
International Space Station
(ISS). The image includes parts of
Arizona
,
Nevada
,
Utah
, and
California
, as well the coastline of
Baja California
,
Mexico
(image centre left). The
Las Vegas
metropolitan area appears as a
gray
region adjacent to the
Spring Mountains
and
Sheep Range
(both covered by white clouds). The
Grand Canyon
, located on the
Colorado Plateau
in Arizona, is visible to the east of Las Vegas, with the
blue
waters of
Lake Mead
in between.
The image also includes the
Mojave Desert
, stretching north from the
Salton Sea
to the
Sierra Nevada
mountain range. The Sierra Nevada is roughly 640 km long (north-south) and forms the boundary between the Central Valley of California and the adjacent Basin and Range physiographic province. The Basin and Range is so called because of the pattern of long linear valleys separated by parallel mountain ranges. The landscape was formed by extension and thinning of the Earth’s crust.
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Date | |
Source | NASA Earth Observatory |
Author | ISS Expedition 24 crew |
Camera location | 36° 30′ 00″ N, 116° 00′ 00″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 36.500000; -116.000000 |
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This image or video was catalogued by Johnson Space Center of the United States
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) under
Photo ID:
ISS024-E-14071
.
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Image acquired with a Nikon D2Xs digital camera using a 32 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.
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Pacific Ocean
Central Valley
Sierra Nevada
Mono Lake
Salton Sea
Las Vegas
Grand Canyon
Basin
Basin
Range
Range