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| Keywords: Photo-jsc2000e02741 DVIDS834443.jpg en JSC2000-E-02741 PIA02719 Release Date 18 February 2000 --- When scientists first looked at this image at least one was heard to mutter From the desert to the mountains to the sea This image shows in striking detail the varied topography of Southern California The data which cover an area one and a half times the size of New Jersey were acquired in 15 seconds by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission SRTM The large V-shape across the center of the image is the intersection of the mountains uplifted along two major faults The San Andreas Fault is the lower part of the V and the Garlock Fault is the upper part Between the faults is the western Mojave Desert including the alternate landing site for the Shuttle at Edwards Air Force Base near the center of the image The Pacific Coast appears in the lower left of the image from Oxnard at the left center edge curving southeast to Los Angeles The flat blue area along the top is the southern end of California's Central Valley Along the right edge of the image is NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Tracking Station Scientists will use data like these to study a broad range of topics including ecology the environment geology as well as to make assessments of seismic flood and wildfire hazards This shaded relief image was generated using topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission A computer-generated artificial light source illuminates the elevation data to produce a pattern of light and shadows Slopes facing the light appear bright while those facing away are shaded On flatter surfaces the pattern of light and shadows can reveal subtle features in the terrain Colors show the elevation as measured by SRTM Colors range from blue at the lowest elevations to white at the highest elevations This image contains about 3000 meters 10 000 feet of total relief White speckles on the face of some of the mountains are holes in the data caused by steep terrain These will be filled using coverage from an intersecting pass The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission SRTM launched on February 11 2000 uses the same radar instrument that comprised the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar SIR-C/X-SAR that flew twice on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1994 The mission is designed to collect three-dimensional measurements of the Earth's surface To collect the 3-D data engineers added a 60-meter-long 200-foot mast an additional C-band imaging antenna and improved tracking and navigation devices The mission is a cooperative project between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA the National Imagery and Mapping Agency NIMA and the German DLR and Italian ASI space agencies It is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena CA for NASA's Earth Science Enterprise Washington DC Size 250 km 155 miles x 150 km 93 miles Location 34 8 deg North lat 118 0 deg West lon Orientation North at top Data Resolution 30 meters 99 feet Date Acquired February 16 2000 Image NASA/JPL/NIMA NASA Identifier HSF-photo-jsc2000e02741 2009-12-14 Glenn Research Center https //www dvidshub net/image/834443 834443 2013-02-08 03 44 WASHINGTON D C US PD-USGov Edwards Air Force Base Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ | ||||
