Salt Lake City, Utah
Photo ID: P-46219
September 28, 1995
This radar image of Salt Lake City, Utah, illustrates the
different
land use patterns that are present in the Utah Valley.
Salt Lake City lies between the shores of the Great Salt
Lake
(the dark area on the left side of the image) and the
Wasatch Front Range (the mountains in the upper half of the
image). The Salt Lake City area is of great interest to urban
planners because of the combination of lake, valley and alpine
environments that coexist in the region. Much of the southern
shore of the Great Salt Lake is a waterfowl management area.
The green grid pattern in the right center of the image
is Salt Lake City and its surrounding communities. The Salt
Lake City airport is visible as the brown rectangle near
the center of the image. Interstate Highway 15 runs from
the middle right edge to the upper left of the image. The
bright white patch east of Interstate 15 is the downtown
area, including Temple Square and the state capitol. The
University of Utah campus is the yellowish area that lies
at the base of the mountains, east of Temple Square. The
large reservoir in the lower left center is a mine tailings
pond. The semi-circular feature in the mountains at the bottom
edge of the image is the Kennecott Copper Mine. The area
shown is 60 kilometers by 40 kilometers (37 miles by 25 miles)
and is centered at 40.6 degrees north latitude, 112.0 degrees
west longitude. North is toward the upper left. This image
was acquired by the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic
Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) aboard the space shuttle Endeavour
on April 10, 1994. The colors in this image represent the
following radar channels and polarizations: red is L-band,
horizontally transmitted and received; green is L-band, horizontally
transmitted and vertically received; and blue is C-band,
horizontally transmitted and vertically received. SIR-C/X-SAR,
a joint mission of the German, Italian and United States
space agencies, is part of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth
program.
![[SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH]](SALTLAKE.GIF)