MISSION 81TA — Cape Town, South Africa

The Cape Peninsula reaching south from Table Mountain, the city wrapped around its northern and eastern flanks. Landsat frame, 30 metres per pixel.

Magnified detail from the Cape Town capture, centre of frame.

Frame detail

MAG ×1.75 — 30 M GSD

Observation

What the pass recorded.

The Cape Peninsula reaching south from Table Mountain, the city wrapped around its northern and eastern flanks. Cold Atlantic water on the west side and the warmer shallows of False Bay to the east meet at Cape Point at the foot of the frame.

ORBIT: //ELIPSE 26°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: -33.9249, 18.4241
Position: 33.92° S / 18.42° E
City: Cape Town
Admin area: Western Cape
Country: South Africa
Captured: DATE NOT STATED
Sensor: LANDSAT + SRTM
Altitude: 705 km
Ground sample: 30 m
Pass azimuth: 85°
Off-nadir: 3.9°
Cloud cover: 8%

The composed plate for mission 81TA: 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: 8.727 MB TIFF ALSO AVAILABLE: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04961 http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_186.html
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASatellite_image_of_Cape_peninsula.jpg

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