MISSION 30US — Lena Delta, Russian Federation

The Lena delta discharging into the Laptev Sea — a fan of channels and thaw lakes roughly 400 kilometres across, and one of the largest protected wetlands in the Arctic. Landsat frame, 30 metres per pixel.

Magnified detail from the Lena Delta capture, centre of frame.

Frame detail

MAG ×1.75 — 30 M GSD

Observation

What the pass recorded.

The Lena delta discharging into the Laptev Sea — a fan of channels and thaw lakes roughly 400 kilometres across, and one of the largest protected wetlands in the Arctic. The braided pattern is meltwater, frozen for most of the year and resolved here during the short northern summer.

ORBIT: //ELIPSE 61°INC: SSO 98.2°ALT: 705 KM

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Telemetry

As flown.

The pass that produced the frame above, as it was recorded: where the sensor was, what it was pointed at and what the sky was doing at the moment of capture.

Coordinates: 72.5000, 126.5000
Position: 72.50° N / 126.50° E
City: Lena Delta
Admin area: Sakha
Country: Russian Federation
Captured: 27.02.2000
Sensor: LANDSAT-7 / ETM+
Altitude: 705 km
Ground sample: 30 m
Pass azimuth: 141°
Off-nadir: 8.6°
Cloud cover: 1%

The composed plate for mission 30US: the capture above, the mission sheet below. — Composed by the same pipeline that produces the print file: the capture above, the mission sheet below. Shown watermarked, at preview resolution, in a display mount.

Deliverable

How it would be printed.

Standard issue. Street grid stays legible.

Format: 50 × 70 CM
Imperial: 20 × 28 IN
Ratio: 5:7
Finish: Framed
Print facility: US / RENO, NV

Source

This reference frame is a public-domain NASA / USGS Landsat product. It stands in for a customer capture, which is tasked commercially and delivered at higher resolution.

Credit: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_detail.php?id=3451 Visible Earth v1 ID: 18024 Credit: Image provided by the USGS EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch. This image is part of the ongoing Landsat Earth as Art series. This image was acquired by Landsat 7’s Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) sensor on 2000-02-27 (Visualization Date: 2002-08-19). (The Lena Delta can be found on Landsat 7 WRS Path 131 Row 8/9, center: 72.21, 126.15.)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ALena_River_Delta_-_Landsat_2000.jpg

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