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Mt. Hood and Columbia River Gorge, Oregon

Portland, the largest city in Oregon, is located on the Columbia River at the northern end of the Willamette Valley. On clear days, Mount Hood highlights the Cascade Mountains backdrop to the east. The Columbia is the largest river in the American Northwest and is navigable up to and well beyond Portland. It is also the only river to fully cross the Cascade Range, and has carved the Columbia River Gorge, which is seen in the left-central part of this view. A series of dams along the river, at topographically favorable sites, provide substantial hydroelectric power to the region.....This perspective view was generated using topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), a Landsat satellite image, and a false sky. Topographic expression is vertically exaggerated two times.....Landsat has been providing visible and infrared views of the Earth since 1972. SRTM elevation data substantially help in analyzing Landsat images by revealing the third dimension of Earth's surface, topographic height. The Landsat archive is managed by the U.S. Geological Survey's Eros Data Center (USGS EDC).....Elevation data used in this image were acquired by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, launched on February 11, 2000.

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Title: Mt. Hood and Columbia River Gorge, Oregon

Caption: Portland, the largest city in Oregon, is located on the Columbia River at the northern end of the Willamette Valley. On clear days, Mount Hood highlights the Cascade Mountains backdrop to the east. The Columbia is the largest river in the American Northwest and is navigable up to and well beyond Portland. It is also the only river to fully cross the Cascade Range, and has carved the Columbia River Gorge, which is seen in the left-central part of this view. A series of dams along the river, at topographically favorable sites, provide substantial hydroelectric power to the region.....This perspective view was generated using topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), a Landsat satellite image, and a false sky. Topographic expression is vertically exaggerated two times.....Landsat has been providing visible and infrared views of the Earth since 1972. SRTM elevation data substantially help in analyzing Landsat images by revealing the third dimension of Earth's surface, topographic height. The Landsat archive is managed by the U.S. Geological Survey's Eros Data Center (USGS EDC).....Elevation data used in this image were acquired by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, launched on February 11, 2000.

Category: SCIENCE • Geology & Fossils

Credit: Album / Science Source / NASA/JPL/NIMA

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Image size: 2650 × 990 px | 7.5 MB

Print size: 22.4 × 8.4 cm | 1043.3 × 389.8 in (300 dpi)

Keywords: AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY • AERIAL • CASCADE MOUNTAINS • CASCADE RANGE • COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE • COLUMBIA RIVER • ENDEAVOR IMAGE • GEOGRAFIA • GEOGRAPHY • GEOLOGIA • GEOLOGICAL FEATURE • GEOLOGICAL FORMATION • GEOLOGY & FOSSILS • GEOLOGY • LANDSAT • LANDSCAPE • LANDSCAPES • MOUNT HOOD • MOUNTAIN • MT. HOOD • OREGON • PORTLAND • RIVER • SATELLITE IMAGE • SATELLITE PHOTOGRAPHY • SCI • SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WISSENSCHAFT SCI • SCIENCE • SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY • SCIENCE_AND_TECHNOLOGY WISSENSCHAFT SCI • SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION • SPACE SHUTTLE IMAGE • SRTM IMAGE • TOPOGRAPHY • VALLEY • WILLAMETTE VALLEY