Mount Baldy. Coloured three-dimensional computer map of Mount Baldy (white peak,upper centre) and the San Gabriel mountains,California,USA. The land topography was mapped by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) on the Space Shuttle Endeavour,using reflected radar pulses. Colours are from the Landsat 7 satellite. Mount Baldy is 3068 metres tall. Santa Monica (grey,bottom right) lies near the Pacific Ocean (blue) and the Santa Monica mountains (green,bottom centre). Los Angeles (grey,lower right) is close to the San Gabriel range. SRTM is run by NASA,the USA's National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA),and the German and Italian space agencies |