[:ja]シェーン・キンブロー宇宙飛行士がISSから撮影した米アリゾナ州ペイジです。
ペイジは米アリゾナ州北部ココニノ郡の町で、近くにはパウエル湖、グレンキャニオンダムが位置しています。1957年、近くで始まったグレンキャニオンダムの建設者とその家族が集まり、住み始めて町が形成されました。気候は乾燥帯砂漠気候に属し、年間を通して雨が少なく雪もほとんど降りません。空気は乾燥していて一日の気温差が大きく、平均的に7月が最も気温が高く（平均最高気温摂氏35.1度）、1月が最も気温が低い（平均最低気温摂氏-3.2度）です。夏の時期にラスベガス等アメリカ南西部を襲うモンスーンはほとんど届きませんが、河川上流で降った雨が鉄砲水として流れてくることがごく稀にあります。
地上の様子はこちらです。
参考文献： Shane Kimbrough’s Tweet
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[Earthview Wonders] No.1312: Page, Arizona🇺🇸
Astronaut Shane Kimbrough captured from ISS Page, Arizona.
Page is a city in Coconino County, Arizona, United States, near the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell. Unlike other cities in the area, Page was founded in 1957 as a housing community for workers and their families during the construction of nearby Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River. After the dam was completed in the 1960s, and was officially incorporated (March 1, 1975), the city grew steadily to today’s population over 7,000. Because of the new roads and bridge built for use during construction, it has become the gateway to the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Lake Powell, attracting more than 3 million visitors per year. Page is also the home of two of the largest electrical generation units in the western U.S. Glen Canyon Dam has a 1.3GW capacity when fully online. Page has an arid climate with hot, very dry summers and chilly winters with very little snow. It is located in the southern edge of the Great Basin Desert on the Colorado Plateau. It is very dry due to being in the rainshadow of the mountains of California and too far north to get consistent North American monsoons.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Shane Kimbrough’s Tweet
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