Los Angeles, California
Photo ID: P-45861
July 20, 1995
This radar image shows the massive urbanization of Los Angeles,
California. The image extends from the Santa Monica Bay at the
left to the San Gabriel Mountains at the right. Downtown Los
Angeles is in the center of the image. The runways of the Los
Angeles International Airport appear as black strips at the left
center of the image. The waterways of Marina del Rey are seen
just above the airport. The San Gabriel Mountains and the city of
Pasadena are at the right center of the image. Black areas on
the mountains on the right are fire scars from the 1993 Altadena
fire. The Rose Bowl is shown as a small circle
near the right center. The complex freeway system is visible as
dark lines throughout the image. Some city areas, such as Santa
Monica in the upper left, appear red due to the alignment of
streets and buildings to the incoming radar beam. The image was
acquired by the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic
Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) onboard the space shuttle Endeavour
on October 3, 1994. SIR-C/X-SAR, a joint
mission of the German, Italian and the United States space
agencies, is part of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth. This image
is centered at 34.04 degrees North latitude and 118.2 degrees West
longitude with North pointing toward the upper right. The area
shown measures 40 kilometers by 50 kilometers (25 miles by 31
miles).
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