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Mission: ISS018 Roll: E Frame: 11096 Mission ID on the Film or image: ISS018
Country or Geographic Name: USA-CALIFORNIA
Features: SANTA BARBARA,SANTA YNEZ MTS
Center Point Latitude: 34.4 Center Point Longitude: -119.7 (Negative numbers indicate south for latitude and west for longitude)
Stereo: (Yes indicates there is an adjacent picture of the same area)
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Camera Tilt: 10
Camera Focal Length: 800mm
Camera: N2: Nikon D2Xs
Film: 4288E : 4288 x 2848 pixel CMOS sensor, RGBG imager color filter.

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Percentage of Cloud Cover: 10 (0-10)

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Date: 20081206 (YYYYMMDD)GMT Time: 191252 (HHMMSS)
Nadir Point Latitude: 34.8, Longitude: -119.3 (Negative numbers indicate south for latitude and west for longitude)
Nadir to Photo Center Direction: Southwest
Sun Azimuth: 170 (Clockwise angle in degrees from north to the sun measured at the nadir point)
Spacecraft Altitude: 186 nautical miles (344 km)
Sun Elevation Angle: 32 (Angle in degrees between the horizon and the sun, measured at the nadir point)
Orbit Number: 1569

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Santa Barbara, CA

This detailed astronaut photograph highlights the Santa Barbara, California, metropolitan area, sometimes called the “American Riviera.” The geographic setting of the city—between the Santa Barbara Channel to the south and the steep Santa Ynez Mountains to the north—and its year-round mild climate evoke the Mediterranean Riviera. The city was officially founded as a Spanish mission in 1786, and it was incorporated into the United States from Mexico in 1848 following the Mexican-American War.

The dramatic landscape of the city is the result of tectonic forces; the Santa Barbara Channel is part of the boundary between the oceanic Pacific Plate and the continental North American Plate. Movement along the San Andreas Fault—the actual zone of contact between the two plates—over geologic time both raised the Santa Ynez range and lowered the seafloor, forming the deep Santa Barbara Channel. The city has experienced two earthquakes, one in 1812 and another in 1925, that caused significant damage.

The urban street grid is defined by white and red rooftops at image top center; to the southeast lie beaches and the boat slips of a large marina (image top right). Two large golf courses, characterized by expanses of green grass, are visible at image center. Low, east-west-trending hills that parallel the coastline are almost completely covered by residential and commercial development, lending a speckled appearance to the hillsides. Immediately offshore, giant kelp beds are the focus of the Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research site, part of the National Science Foundation’s Long Term Ecological Research Network.

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