NASA Photo ID: SL4-93-167 File Name: 10076392.jpg Film Type: 70mm Date Taken: 02/01/74 Title: Kennedy Space Center and the Florida Atlantic coast area Description: A vertical view of the Kennedy Space Center and the Florida Atlantic coast area is seen in this Skylab 4 Earth Resources Experiments Package S190-B (five-inch earth terrain camera) infrared photography taken from the Skylab space station in Earth orbit. This photograph shows the major land-ocean features of the Florida coast from near Vero Beach northward to Cape Canaveral and the KSC complex. The launch pads for the Skylab missions are clearly visible. Various shades of red portray differences in the vegetation such as shown in the patterns in the agricultural area near Vero Beach. At KSC, the nearly continuous and uniform red color shows that most of the land areas are heavily vegetated. The white coastal beach areas are strongly contrasted to the red land and the blue Atlantic Ocean. Old dunal areas in KSC are visible on Merritt Island which is separated from the Launch areas by the Banana River and from the mainland by the Indian River. Federal and state highways and numerous causeways over the rivers are easily identified. The Florida mainland is partly shodowed by small white clouds which cast a pronounced shadow to the east of each cloud indicating the Sun is west of solar noon. Subject terms: ATLANTIC OCEAN COASTS EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FROM SPACE) EARTH RESOURCES FLORIDA INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY KENNEDY SPACE CENTER ONBOARD ACTIVITIES PHOTOGRAPHY SKYLAB 4 SKYLAB PROGRAM SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS TOPOGRAPHY VEGETATION
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