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English: This astronaut photograph highlights the Reliant Park area of Houston’s “inner loop,” the part of the city located within Interstate Highway 610. Reliant Stadium was built in 2002 to host the
Houston Texans, a
National Football League team. It was the first
American football
stadium built with a retractable roof (shown here in its retracted position). Houston is home to the
NASA
Johnson Space Center and is notable among major U.S. metropolitan areas for its lack of formal zoning ordinances. (Other forms of regulation play a similar role here.) This leads to highly mixed land use within the city. Around Reliant Park you can find large
asphalt parking lots, vacant lots with a mixture of
grass and exposed topsoil, and both single- and multi-family residential areas. A forested area (dark
green, lower left) is located less than two kilometres from the parking lots. |
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| Source | NASA Earth Observatory |
| Author | ISS Expedition 25 crew |
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This subset of a hand-held digital camera image has a spatial resolution of 2 to 3 meters per pixel (or picture element), making it one of the highest spatial resolution images ever obtained from the International Space Station (ISS). Such high resolution was made possible by using lens “doublers” to increase the optical magnification of camera lenses. Active ISS motion compensation is also important; the astronaut must pan the camera by hand at just the right rate, keeping the object at the same point in the viewfinder. The technique involves bracing yourself against the space station bulkhead to prevent movement related to weightlessness. Traditional short lens photography is easier because it does not require motion compensation.
Image acquired with a Nikon D3X digital camera using an effective 1000 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.
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