Heilongjiang Province, China
Heilongjiang is a province of China located in the northeastern part of the country. The flat interior part of the province grows soybeans, maize, wheat, beets, flax and sunflowers. Farms are small and long skinny rectangles in shape, surrounding regularly spaced villages. The image was acquired September 9, 2005, is located at 45.4 degrees north latitude, 126.1 degrees east longitude, and covers an area of 19 x 22 km. The U.S. science team is located at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The Terra mission is part of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. More information about ASTER is available at http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/.
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Image details
ID#:
PIA16596
Date added:
2012-12-07
Target:
Earth
Mission:
Terra
Spacecraft:
Terra
Instruments:
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER)
Size:
1508 x 1288 pixels (width x height)
Rating:
Views:
405
Full-Res TIFF:
PIA16596.tif (5.83 MB)
Full-Res JPG:
PIA16596.jpg (0.48 MB)
Image credit:
NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
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