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PIA03364:ColoredHeightandShadedRelief,CentralAmerica

Earth
Sol(oursun)
Mission: ShuttleRadarTopographyMission(SRTM)
Spacecraft: SpaceShuttleEndeavour
Instrument: CBandInterferometricRadar
ProductSize: 9600x9000pixels(wxh)
ProducedBy: JPL
FullResTIFF: PIA03364.tif(84.57MB)
FullResJPEG: PIA03364.jpg(8.603MB)
TargetName:

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ClickontheimageabovetodownloadamoderatelysizedimageinJPEGformat(possiblyreducedinsizefromoriginal)

OriginalCaptionReleasedwithImage:
Panama,CostaRica,Nicaragua,ElSalvador,Honduras,Guatemala,Belize,southernMexicoandpartsofCubaandJamaica
areallseeninthisimagefromNASA'sShuttleRadarTopographyMission.ThedominantfeatureofthenorthernpartofCentral
AmericaistheSierraMadreRange,spreadingeastfromMexicobetweenthenarrowPacificcoastalplainandthelimestone
lowlandoftheYucatanPeninsula.ParallelhillrangessweepacrossHondurasandextendsouth,pasttheCaribbeanMosquito
CoasttolakesManaguaandNicaragua.TheCordilleraCentralrisestothesouth,graduallydescendingtoLakeGatunandthe
IsthmusofPanama.AhighlyactivevolcanicbeltrunsalongthePacificseaboardfromMexicotoCostaRica.
HighqualitysatelliteimageryofCentralAmericahas,untilnow,beendifficulttoobtainduetopersistentcloudcoverinthisregion
oftheworld.TheabilityofSRTMtopenetratecloudsandmakethreedimensionalmeasurementshasallowedthegenerationof
thefirstcompletehighresolutiontopographicmapoftheentireregion.Thismapwasusedtogeneratetheimage.
Twovisualizationmethodswerecombinedtoproducetheimage:shadingandcolorcodingoftopographicheight.Theshade
imagewasderivedbycomputingtopographicslopeinthenorthsouthdirection.Colorcodingisdirectlyrelatedtotopographic
height,withgreenatthelowerelevations,risingthroughyellow,red,andmagenta,towhiteatthehighestelevations.
Foranannotatedversionofthisimage,pleaseselectFigure1,below:

(Largeimage:~9mBjpeg)

ElevationdatausedinthisimagewereacquiredbytheShuttleRadarTopographyMissionaboardtheSpaceShuttleEndeavour,
launchedonFebruary11,2000.ThemissionusedthesameradarinstrumentthatcomprisedtheSpaceborneImagingRadar
C/XBandSyntheticApertureRadarthatflewtwiceontheSpaceShuttleEndeavourin1994.TheShuttleRadarTopography
MissionwasdesignedtocollectthreedimensionalmeasurementsoftheEarth'ssurface.Tocollectthe3Ddata,engineers
addeda60meter(200foot)longmast,installedadditionalCbandandXbandantennas,andimprovedtrackingandnavigation
devices.ThemissionisacooperativeprojectbetweenNASA,theNationalImageryandMappingAgencyoftheU.S.Department
ofDefense,andtheGermanandItalianspaceagencies.ItismanagedbyNASA'sJetPropulsionLaboratory,Pasadena,Calif.,
forNASA'sEarthScienceEnterprise,Washington,D.C.
Size:1720by1670kilometers(1068by1036miles)
Location:14.5degreesNorthlatitude,85.0degreesWestlongitude
Orientation:Northtowardthetop
ImageData:ShadedandcoloredSRTMelevationmodel

DateAcquired:February2000
ImageCredit:
NASA/JPL/NIMA
ImageAdditionDate:
20021022

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