These MISR images from May 12, 2001 (Terra orbit 7447) include
portions of southern Wyoming, central Colorado, and western
Nebraska. The top view is from the instrument's vertical-viewing
(nadir) camera. The bottom image is a stereo "anaglyph" generated
using data from the nadir and 46-degree-forward cameras. Viewing
the anaglyph with red/blue glasses (red filter over your left eye)
gives a 3-D effect. To facilitate stereo viewing, the images have
been oriented with north at the left. Each image measures
422 kilometers x 213 kilometers.
The South Platte River enters just to the right of center at the top
of the images. It wends its way westward (down), then turns
southward (right) where it flows through the city of Denver.
Located at the western edge of the Great Plains, Denver is
nicknamed the "Mile High City", a consequence of its 1609-meter
(5280-foot) elevation above sea level. It shows up in the imagery
as a grayish patch surrounded by numerous agricultural fields to the
north and east. Denver is situated just east of the Front Range of
the Rocky Mountains, located in the lower right of the images. The
Rockies owe their present forms to tectonic uplift and sculpting by
millions of years of erosion. Scattered cumulus clouds floating
above the mountain peaks are visible in these images, and stand out
most dramatically in the 3-D stereo view.
To the north of Denver, other urban areas included within these
images are Boulder, Greeley, Longmont, and Fort Collins, Colorado;
Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming; and Scottsbluff, Nebraska.
Image credit: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team.
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