The peaks of the Wasatch and Uinta Ranges provide spectacular
backdrops for the 2002 Winter Olympics, to be held in Salt Lake City,
Utah. The mountains surrounding Salt Lake City are renowned for the dry,
powdery snow that results from the arid climate and location at the
western edge of the Rocky Mountains and eastern rim of the Great Basin.
This early-winter image pair was acquired by the Multi-angle Imaging
SpectroRadiometer (MISR) on December 31, 2000. The top
image is a natural-color view from MISRs nadir (downward-looking)
camera, and the bottom image is a stereo anaglyph created using red-band
data from MISRs 46-degree forward-looking camera, and green and
blue-band data from the nadir camera. In order to facilitate stereo
viewing, the images have been oriented with north at the left and west
at the bottom. To observe the 3-D effect of the stereo anaglyph,
red/blue glasses should be used with the red filter placed over your
left eye. Information on ordering glasses can be found at
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/Help/VendorList.html#Glasses.
The canyons and peaks of the Uinta and Wasatch Mountains are
particularly striking in the stereo view. The Uinta Mountains contain
the highest peaks in Utah and are notable as the most prominent
east-west trending range in the contiguous United States. The upper left
corner of the image contains a portion of Wyoming, and part of the
Colorado River can be seen near the right-hand edge. Each image
represents an area of approximately 270 kilometers x 475 kilometers.
Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team.