MISSION 54AN — Seattle, United States

Seattle on the isthmus between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, the two water bodies squeezing the city into a north–south strip. Landsat frame, 30 metres per pixel.

Magnified detail from the Seattle capture, centre of frame.

Frame detail

MAG ×1.75 — 30 M GSD

Observation

What the pass recorded.

Seattle on the isthmus between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, the two water bodies squeezing the city into a north–south strip. Elliott Bay, the ship canal and the Duwamish industrial flats all fall inside one frame.

ORBIT: //ELIPSE 44°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: 47.6062, -122.3321
Position: 47.61° N / 122.33° W
City: Seattle
Admin area: Washington
Country: United States
Captured: 23.08.2014
Sensor: LANDSAT-7 / ETM+
Altitude: 705 km
Ground sample: 30 m
Pass azimuth: 118°
Off-nadir: 7.1°
Cloud cover: 22%

The composed plate for mission 54AN: 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: NASA Satellite Captures Super Bowl Cities – Seattle
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ALandsat_7_Captures_Super_Bowl_Cities_%E2%80%93_Seattle.jpg

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