{author}        National Aeronautics and Space Administration

{date}          24-Oct-2003

{description}   KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. A great white heron silently waits in
                the tall grass within KSC. The heron is one of 310 species of
                birds that inhabit the National Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge,
                which shares a boundary with KSC. The marshes and open water of
                the refuge also provide wintering areas for 23 species of
                migratory waterfowl, as well as a year-round home for great blue
                herons, great egrets, wood storks, cormorants, brown pelicans and
                other species of marsh and shore birds.

{highres}       3000 x 2061

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{hightype}      JPEG

{keywords}      NASA,KSC,Kennedy Space Center

{lowres}        320 x 219

{lowsize}       80266

{lowtype}       GIF

{mediumres}     1024 x 703

{mediumsize}    344094

{mediumtype}    JPEG

{number}        KSC-03PD-2985

{slideres}      120 x 108

{slidesize}     15500

{slidetype}     GIF

{tinyres}       100 x 68

{tinysize}      8515

{tinytype}      GIF

{title}         KSC-03PD-2985

{type}          Image

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