S44-76-090 - STS-044 - Earth observations of cloud patterns over the Pacific taken during STS-45

The original finding aid described this as:

Description: Five hundred miles southwest of Los Angeles, California, a beautiful band of clouds mark the southern extremity of warm continental air. This warmer air is the boundry of the Santa Ana Winds that frequently cause dangerous blowing dust and fan raging range fires in southern California. This low stratocumulus cloud mass, here as much as a thousand miles from shore, usually pushes up against the California coast.

Subject Terms: STS-44 EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FROM SPACE)

Date Taken: 11/30/1991

Categories: Earth Observations

Interior_Exterior: Exterior

Ground_Orbit: On-orbit

Original: Film - 70MM CT

Preservation File Format: TIFF

geon: PACIFIC OCEAN

feat: CLOUDS

tilt: Low Oblique

cldp: 50

nlat: 22.4

nlon: -138.1

azi: 225

alt: 196

elev: 25
STS-44