Dallas and Ft. Worth, Texas, USA

STS039-85-032 (28 April-6 May 1991) --- A large portion of the Dallas - Fort Worth metropolitan area is seen in this 70mm frame, photographed from the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Discovery. Hold photograph with the Dallas - Ft. Worth Airport directly above the center point of the picture so that north will be at the top. Compared with Apollo 6 pictures made 23 years earlier (April 1968), this photo indicates notable growth in the municipalities between Dallas and Ft. Worth as well as great outer growth of the two cities. (Most of the western portions of Ft. Worth did not make it into this frame). Easily recognizable bodies of water are Grapevine Lake and North Lake (both near the huge airport), Mountain Creek Lake (southwest of Dallas), Lake Arlington (southeast of Ft. Worth) and the Trinity River which flows southward to the Gulf of Mexico.