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Polar orbits are used for Earth-mapping, reconnaissance satellites, as well as for some weather satellites. [2] The Iridium satellite constellation uses a polar orbit to provide telecommunications services. Near-polar orbiting satellites commonly choose a Sun-synchronous orbit, where each successive orbital pass occurs at the same local time of ...
Module:Location map/data/USA Los Angeles Metropolitan Area is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
English: Location map of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area — which encompasses Los Angeles County and Orange County in Southern California. Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 120.0 %. Geographic limits of the map:
The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership , previously known as the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project and NPP-Bridge, has a nearly identical design as NOAA-20 and shares some ground systems with it but it was not designed as a part of JPSS. It was originally proposed as a proof-of-concept ...
Module:Location map/data/United States Los Angeles Central is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Los Angeles. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Los Angeles is well known for Hollywood, the wealth found there, and its traffic. As a born and bred Southern Californian, I know from experience that almost anytime you drive into L.A. you can ...
Traffic congestion was of such great concern by the late 1930s in the Los Angeles metropolitan area that the influential Automobile Club of Southern California engineered an elaborate plan to create an elevated freeway-type "Motorway System," a key aspect of which was the dismantling of the streetcar lines, to be replaced with buses that could ...
A section of I-10, also known as the Santa Monica Freeway, was damaged and remained closed in both directions Sunday near Alameda Street in Los Angeles, a city well known for its traffic ...