Northwestern Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park Viewed During Skylab 4

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Northwestern Wyoming Landscape Viewed from Skylab 4

Keywords

Aeronautics, Johnson Space Center, NASA, Skylab 4, Wyoming

Photo Description

JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS.  SKYLAB 4 ONBOARD EARTH TERRAIN PHOTO -- A near vertical view of the snow-covered northwest corner of Wyoming as seen from the Skylab space station in Earth orbit. A Skylab 4 crewman used a hand-held 70mm Hasselblad camera to take this picture. A small portion of Montana and Idaho is in this photograph also. The dark area is Yellowstone National Park. The largest body of water is Yellowstone Lake. The Absaroka Range is immediately east and northeast of Yellowstone Lake. The elongated range in the eastern part of the picture is the Big Horn Mountains. The Wind River Range is at bottom center. The Grand Teton National Park area is almost straight south of Yellowstone Lake. Approximately 30 percent of the State of Wyoming can be seen in this photograph.

Publication Date

2-1974

Format

image/jpeg

Number of Images

2

Side of Image

Front of Image

Publisher

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Original Size

8" x 10"

Identifier

DP0057714-0048a

NASA Photo Number

SL4-138-3846

Photo Credit

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Location

John C. Hitt Library

Department

Special Collections & University Archives

Collection

Official NASA Photographs, Vol. 3, October 2, 1973 - February 14, 1974