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National Geographic : 1974 Oct
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H IGH-FLYING EYE yields bold detail in a striking enlargement of Skylab's imagery. The frame above shows Florida's Tampa Bay. MacDill Air Force Base appears as an angular speck on the Interbay Peninsula, extending into the bay at center. Clock shows time and sequence of the photograph. Enlarged nearly 50 times (left), the airport comes into focus. Aircraft show up on a standby apron at lower left, beside the main runway. This combination of large-area coverage and high resolution makes such photographs ideal for mapping and urban-development studies. AT ITS MEETING with the Father of Waters, the Ohio River joins the writhing and equally silt-laden Mississippi (following pages). Floodwaters fed by heavy rains and spring melt from far up the Mississippi linger in riverside fields; abandoned oxbows mark earlier mean ders. Lying like a thread across farms that grid the Illinois prairie, Interstate 57 streaks south toward oft-flooded Cairo, wedged between the converging torrents. Both with cameras and their own observa tions from the wardroom window, the astronauts could make quick and accurate appraisals of flooding, often difficult on the ground. SKYLABi 483
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