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ASTER Paris - NASA satellite images

The Eiffel Tower and its shadow can be seen next to the Seine in the left middle of this ASTER image of Paris. Based on the length of the shadow and the solar elevation angle of 59 degrees, we can calculate its... More

Salton Sea, California - NASA satellite images

The Salton Sea in south California was created in 1905 when spring flooding on the Colorado River breached a canal. For 18 months the entire volume of the river rushed into the Salton Trough, creating a lake 32... More

Shiveluch Volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia

On the night of June 4, 2001, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) captured this thermal image of the erupting Shiveluch volcano. Located on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, S... More

Lithium Mining, Nevada - NASA satellite images

This image from NASA Terra spacecraft shows the once-abandoned mining town of Silver Peak, Nevada, which began to thrive again when Foote Mineral Company began extracting lithium from brine below the floor of C... More

Apollo 11 Mission Image - Earth view over Africa, the Mediterranean an...

Description: Earth view over Africa, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. This image was taken from a distance of more than 100,00 nautical miles, approximately 25 hours after launch during the transluner pha... More

Shadegan, Iran - NASA satellite images

The town of Shadegan, Iran is northeast of where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers enter the Persian Gulf. It sits near a wetland and upon land that was once part of an inland river delta. The long, linear orchar... More

Urbanization: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - NASA satellite images

Riyadh, the national capital of Saudi Arabia, is shown in 1972, 1990 and 2000. Its population grew in these years from about a half million to more than two million. Saudi Arabia experienced urbanization later ... More

Nyiragonga Volcano - NASA satellite images

This image of the Nyiragonga volcano eruption in the Congo was acquired on January 28, 2002 by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra satellite. With its 14sp... More

Huaraz, Peru - NASA satellite images

A chunk of glacier was threatening to fall into an Andean lake and cause major flooding in a Peruvian city of 60,000. A fissure has appeared in the glacier that feeds the Lake Palcacocha near the city of Huaraz... More

Istanbul, Turkey - NASA satellite images

This June 16, 2000 image of Istanbul, Turkey show a full 60 by 60 km ASTER scene in the visible and infrared channels. Vegetation appears red, and urban areas blue-green. Bustling Istanbul, with its magnificent... More

NASA Keeps Watch on a Potential Disaster in the Icy Andes

An Earth-monitoring instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite is keeping a close eye on a potential glacial disaster in the making in Peru's spectacular, snow-capped Cordillera Blanca (White Mountains), the high... More

Calcutta - NASA satellite images, JPL/NASA images

The city of Calcutta appears in this 24 by 34 km (15 by 21 mile) sub-scene, acquired March 29, 2000. In 1690 the British East India Company founded Calcutta as a trading post on the marshy east bank of the Hugl... More

Santa Claus, Ga./Ind. - NASA satellite images

The towns of Santa Claus, Ga., (top) and Santa Claus, Ind. (bottom), are shown in these two images from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra sate... More

Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska

This image acquired by NASA Terra spacecraft is of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Located in Katmai National Park, Alaska, the park is filled with ash flows from the 1912 eruption of Novarupta. NASA/GSFC/ME... More

Lake Ilopango, El Salvador - NASA satellite images

Lake Ilopango is a crater lake which fills a volcanic caldera in central El Salvador, immediately east of the capital city San Salvador. The caldera collapsed most recently in about 500 AD, producing 20 times a... More

Momotombo Fury in Nicaragua Captured by NASA Satellite

In Dec. 2015, one of Nicaragua largest volcanoes, Momotombo, erupted for the first time since 1905. NASA Terra spacecraft acquired this image showing large ash columns and pyroclasitc flows. NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSD... More

ASTER Dunes - NASA satellite images

This image of Saudi Arabia shows a great sea of linear dunes in part of the Rub' al Khali, or the Empty Quarter. Acquired on June 25, 2000, the image covers an area 37 kilometers (23 miles) wide and 28 kilomete... More

Las Vegas - NASA satellite images

This image of Las Vegas, NV was acquired on August, 2000 and covers an area 42 km (25 miles) wide and 30 km (18 miles) long. The image displays three bands of the reflected visible and infrared wavelength regio... More

Naica Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico - NASA satellite images

The Naica mine in Chihuahua, Mexico, with its enormous gypsum crystals, may well be called the "Queen of the Giant Crystals localities." Though the Naica mine is no show mine, but still a working lead-zinc mine... More

Machu Picchu, Peru - NASA satellite images

The ruins of Machu Picchu, rediscovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham, are one of the most beautiful and enigmatic ancient sites in the world. While the Inca people utilized the Andean mountain top (2800 m elevation... More

Nasca Lines, Peru - NASA satellite images

The Nasca Lines are located in the Pampa region of Peru, the desolate plain of the Peruvian coast 400 km south of Lima. The Lines were first spotted when commercial airlines began flying across the Peruvian des... More

Drakelands Mine, England - NASA satellite images

The Drakelands Mine (previously known as the Hemerdon Mine) is a historic tungsten and tin mine located northeast of Plymouth, England. Tin and tungsten deposits were discovered in 1867, and the mine operated u... More

Terra 9-Globe Dataset. NASA public domain image colelction.

Abstract: Terra 9-globe dataset animation: datasets (left to right, top to bottom): biosphere (SeaStar/SeaWiFS), water vapor (GOES 9 & 10, Meteosat, and GMS-5), temperature (Globe), fires (AVHRR), clouds (GOES ... More

This Magellan image reveals Sacajawea Patera, a large, elongate calder...

This Magellan image reveals Sacajawea Patera, a large, elongate caldera located in wester Ishtar Terra on the smooth plateau of Lakshmi Planum. The image is centered at 64.5 degrees north latitude adn 337 degr... More

Official portrait of STS-44 Terra Scout payload specialist Thomas J. H...

S91-45399 (30 Aug 1991) --- Astronaut Thomas J. Hennen, payload specialist.

Venus - Lada Terra Region, Venus Magellan Images

This NASA Magellan radar image mosaic is of part of Venus, centered at 51 degrees south latitude, 21 degrees east longitude. Running from west to east across the center of the image is part of a wide lava chann... More

Venus - Aphrodite Terra, Venus Magellan Images

Landslides on Venus! The image on the left was taken in late November of 1990 during Magellan first trip around Venus. The image on the right was taken July 23, as the Magellan spacecraft passed over the region... More

Microwave Limb Sounder/El Niño Watch - Water Vapor Measurement, Octobe...

This image shows atmospheric water vapor in Earth upper troposphere, about 10 kilometers 6 miles above the surface, as measured by NASA Microwave Limb Sounder MLS instrument flying aboard the Upper Atmosphere R... More

Microwave Limb Sounder/El Niño Watch - December, 1997

This image shows differences in atmospheric water vapor relative to a normal average year in the Earth upper troposphere about 10 kilometers 6 miles above the surface. NASA/JPL

Microwave Limb Sounder/El Niño Watch - February thru December, 1997

This series of six images shows the movement of atmospheric water vapor over the Pacific Ocean during the formation of the 1997 El Niño condition. NASA/JPL

TOPEX/El Niño Watch - El Niño Moisture in the Atmosphere, February 22,...

This image shows differences in atmospheric water vapor relative to a normal average year in the Earth upper troposphere about 10 kilometers 6 miles above the surface. NASA/JPL

TOPEX/El Niño Watch - El Niño Moisture in the Atmosphere, January and ...

This series of six images shows the evolution of atmospheric water vapor over the Pacific Ocean during the 1998 El Niño condition. NASA/JPL

Perspective View of Ishtar Terra

This perspective view of Ishtar Terra was derived from data obtained by NASA's Pioneer Venus spacecraft altimetry radar instrument. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00093 NASA/JPL/USGS

Small Volcano in Tempe Terra. NASA public domain image colelction.

Small Volcano in Tempe Terra NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

ISS01-E-5113 (December 2000) --- This scene on the remote, rugged Arg...

ISS01-E-5113 (December 2000) --- This scene on the remote, rugged Argentine/Chilean border in the far southern Andes Mountains offers numerous, dramatic examples of both erosional processes and features of ice... More

STS044-10-021 - STS-044 - A view of Terra Scout's SPADVOS device on OV...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: The Spaceborne Direct View Optical System (SPADVOS) equipment is visible over window W7 on the aft flight deck of Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Th... More

STS044-10-017 - STS-044 - A view of Terra Scout's SPADVOS device on OV...

Escondida Mine, Chile - NASA satellite images

This ASTER image covers 30 by 37 km in the Atacama Desert, Chile and was acquired on April 23, 2000. The Escondida Cu-Au-Ag open-pit mine is at an elevation of 3050 m, and came on stream in 1990. Current capaci... More

STS044-10-019 - STS-044 - A view of Terra Scout's SPADVOS device on OV...

Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland - NASA satellite images

Aletsch Glacier, the largest glacier of Europe, covers more than 120 square kilometers (more than 45 square miles) in southern Switzerland. At its eastern extremity lies a glacierlake, Mdrjelensee (2,350 meters... More

NASA Images Show Decreased Clarity in Lake Tahoe Water

Images from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer aboard NASA's Terra satellite, launched in 1999, illustrate the state of gradually decreasing water clarity at Lake Tahoe, one of t... More

STS044-05-018 - STS-044 - STS-44 Hennen conducts the Terra Scout exper...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Payload Specialist Thomas ``Tom`` Hennen conducts the Terra Scout experiemnt on the aft flight deck of Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, during the ST... More

STS044-10-018 - STS-044 - A view of Terra Scout's SPADVOS device on OV...

Workers (left) at Vandenberg AFB, Calif., get ready to prepare NASA's ...

Workers (left) at Vandenberg AFB, Calif., get ready to prepare NASA's Terra spacecraft (right) for encapsulation in the rocket faring (left) before launch. The spacecraft is expected to be launched Dec. 16 aboa... More

The rocket faring (left) displays a logo of the many science instrumen...

The rocket faring (left) displays a logo of the many science instruments that make up NASA's Terra spacecraft (background). When fully assembled, Terra will be encapsulated in the faring before launch, schedule... More

NASA's Terra spacecraft awaits installation of the instruments that wi...

NASA's Terra spacecraft awaits installation of the instruments that will collect data for continuous, long-term records of the state of Earth's land, oceans and atmosphere. Terra is expected to be launched aboa... More

The rocket faring is lifted up the launch tower for mating with the Lo...

The rocket faring is lifted up the launch tower for mating with the Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS rocket after encapsulation of Terra, formerly EOS AM-1. It is scheduled for launch Dec. 16 from Space Launch Comple... More

NASA's Terra spacecraft (right) is prepared for encapsulation in the r...

NASA's Terra spacecraft (right) is prepared for encapsulation in the rocket faring (left) before launch at Vandenberg AFB, Calif. The faring displays a logo of the many science instruments that make up Terra. T... More

Workers at Vandenberg AFB, Calif., help prepare NASA's Terra spacecraf...

Workers at Vandenberg AFB, Calif., help prepare NASA's Terra spacecraft (right) for encapsulation in the rocket faring (left). Terra is expected to be launched aboard a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS rocket Dec. 16... More

NASA's Terra spacecraft (foreground) is ready for encapsulation in the...

NASA's Terra spacecraft (foreground) is ready for encapsulation in the rocket faring behind it. Terra is expected to be launched aboard a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS rocket Dec. 16 from Space Launch Complex 3 Ea... More

London, England, NASA history collection

For almost 2,000 years, the River Thames has served as the life force of London, capital of the United Kingdom and one of the world's most famous cities. In AD 43 the Romans established the trading settlement o... More

Ural Mountains, Russia, NASA history collection

This image from NASA Terra spacecraft shows the Ural Mountains, which run 2500 km north-south through western Russia, and form the boundary between Europe and Asia. Since the 17th century, the mountains were ex... More

New Zealand Glaciers - NASA satellite images

New Zealand contains over 3,000 glaciers, most of which are in the Southern Alps on the South Island. Since 1890, the glaciers have been retreating, with short periods of small advances, as shown in this image ... More

Lake Garda, Italy - NASA satellite images

This ASTER image was acquired on July 29, 2000 and covers an area of 30 by 57 km in northern Italy. Lake Garda was formed by glaciers during the last Ice Age, and is Italy's largest lake. Lago di Garda lies in ... More

Astana, Kazakhstan - NASA satellite images

Astana is the capital and second largest city of Kazakhstan, with a population of about 600,000. It was founded as a fort in 1824 on the Ishim River by Siberian Cossacks, and became a railway junction in the ea... More

Dawson, Canada - NASA satellite images

NASA Terra spacecraft acquired this image of Dawson, Canada. A boom town in 1898, discovery of gold in the Klondike fueled the massive influx of miners, merchants, and other support professions to this town on ... More

Amsterdam, Netherlands, NASA history collection

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. Its name derives from a dam in the river Amstel. Founded in the 12th century as a fishing village, Amsterdam was one of the most important ports... More

Mt. Erebus, Antarctica - NASA satellite images

This image from NASA Terra spacecraft shows Mount Erebus, the world southernmost historically active volcano, overlooking the McMurdo research station on Ross Island. The 3794-m-high Erebus is the largest of th... More

MISR First Views of James Bay, Canada

The first images taken by NASA Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer MISR on February 24, 2000, show the winter landscape of James Bay, Ontario, Canada from three of the instrument nine cameras. NASA/Goddard/JPL

ASTER First Views of San Francisco River, Brazil - Visible/near Infrar...

This image of the San Francisco River channel, and its surrounding flood zone, in Brazil was acquired by band 3N of ASTER's Visible/Near Infrared sensor. The surrounding area along the river channel in light gr... More

ASTER First Views of Red Sea, Ethiopia - Thermal-Infrared TIR Image mo...

ASTER succeeded in acquiring this image at night, which is something Visible/Near Infrared VNIR) and Shortwave Infrared (SWIR) sensors cannot do. The scene covers the Red Sea coastline to an inland area of Ethi... More

ASTER First Views of Rift Valley, Ethiopia - Thermal-Infrared TIR Imag...

This image is a color composite covering the Rift Valley inland area of Ethiopia (south of the region shown in PIA02452). The color difference of this image reflects the distribution of different rocks with dif... More

Nicaraguan Volcanoes, 26 February 2000

The true-color image at left is a downward-looking (nadir) view of the area around the San Cristobal volcano, which erupted the previous day. This image is oriented with east at the top and north at the left. T... More

Multi-Angle Views of the Appalachian Mountains, 6 March 2000

These images from NASA Terra spacecraft show the nadir view of the eastern United States, stretching from Lake Ontario to northern Georgia, and spanning the Appalachian Mountains. NASA/GSFC/JPL, MISR Team

Multi-Angle View of the Canary Islands

A multi-angle view of the Canary Islands in a dust storm, 29 February 2000. At left is a true-color image taken by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer MISR instrument on NASA Terra satellite. NASA/GSFC/JP... More

Multi-angle Images of Hudson Bay and James Bay, Canada, 24 February 20...

These multi-angle images of Hudson Bay and James Bay, Canada, taken 24 February 2000 from NASA Terra spacecraft, come from the downward-looking nadir camera on the MISR instrument onboard NASA Terra satellite. ... More

ASTER Images the Island of Hawaii - Public domain map

These images of the Island of Hawaii were acquired on March 19, 2000 by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra satellite. With its 14 spectral bands from the ... More

ASTER Images San Francisco Bay Area - Public domain map

These images of the San Francisco Bay region were acquired on March 3, 2000 by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra satellite. Each covers an area 60 kilome... More

ASTER Images San Francisco Bay Area - Public domain map

This image of the San Francisco Bay region was acquired on March 3, 2000 by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra satellite. With its 14 spectral bands from ... More

ASTER Images Tokyo - NASA satellite images

This image of the city of Tokyo was acquired on March 22, 2000 by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra satellite. With its 14 spectral bands from the visibl... More

ASTER Images Mt. Usu Volcano. NASA public domain image colelction.

On April 3, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra Satellite captured this image of the erupting Mt. Usu volcano in Hokkaido, Japan. With its 14 spectral band... More

The Plains of Central Terra Meridiani

The Plains of Central Terra Meridiani NASA/JPL/MSSS Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eroded, Layered Cratered Highlands of Eastern Arabia Terra

Eroded, Layered Cratered Highlands of Eastern Arabia Terra NASA/JPL/MSSS

A Complex, Ridged Terrain in North Terra Cimmeria

A Complex, Ridged Terrain in North Terra Cimmeria NASA/JPL/MSSS

Syrtis Major and Arabia Terra, Mars

Syrtis Major and Arabia Terra, Mars NASA/JPL/MSSS Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

MISR Views Delaware Bay, Chesapeake Bay, and the Appalachian Mountains

These multi-angle images of Delaware Bay, Chesapeake Bay, and the Appalachian Mountains, acquired 24 March 2000 from NASA Terra spacecraft, come from the downward-looking nadir camera on the MISR instrument onb... More

MISR Views Florida - NASA satellite images

A plume from a large brush fire that burned about 15,000 acres in 2000 is visible at the western edge of the Big Cypress Swamp in southern Florida. NASA Terra satellite captured acquired this image on April 9, ... More

Evidence for Recent Liquid Water on Mars: Gullies in Crater Wall, Noac...

Evidence for Recent Liquid Water on Mars: Gullies in Crater Wall, Noachis Terra NASA/JPL/MSSS

MISR Views Hurricane Carlotta - NASA satellite images

This anaglyph from NASA Terra satellite vertical nadir camera, shows Hurricane Carlotta location in the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 500 km south of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in 2000. 3D glasses are necessary to ... More

MISR Views Northern Australia - NASA satellite images

These images from NASA Terra satellite are of tropical northern Australia acquired on June 1, 2000 Terra orbit 2413 during the long dry season. NASA/GSFC/JPL, MISR Team

MISR View of Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada

These images from NASA Terra satellite are of the southeast portion of Georgian Bay in Ontario, Canada, acquired on March 6, 2000, during Terra orbit 1155. NASA/GSFC/JPL, MISR Team

MISR Views the Big Island of Hawaii

This stereo image from NASA Terra satellite show the Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa volcanoes in Hawaii; a southern face of a line of cumulus clouds off the north coast of Hawaii is also visible. 3D glasses are necess... More

MISR Views Southern California - NASA satellite images

These images from NASATerra satellite are of Southern California acquired on March 14, 2000 during Terra orbit 1273. North is at the top. NASA/GSFC/JPL, MISR Team

MISR Images Wildfires in Northwestern US

These images from NASA Terra satellite are of smoke plumes from devastating wildfires in the northwestern U.S. This view of the Clearwater and Salmon River Mountains in Idaho was acquired on August 5, 2000 Terr... More

MISR Images Forest Fires and Hurricane

These images from NASA Terra satellite captured on August 14, 2000 show forest fires raging in Montana and Hurricane Hector swirling in the Pacific. NASA/GSFC/JPL, MISR Team

MISR Images Northeastern Botswana - NASA satellite images

These images from NASA Terra satellite images of the Ntwetwe and Sua Pans in northeastern Botswana were acquired on August 18, 2000 Terra orbit 3553. NASA/GSFC/JPL, MISR Team

MISR Images Zambia and Botswana

These images from NASA Terra satellite images of Zambia and Botswana, Africa were acquired on August 25, 2000 during Terra orbit 3655. NASA/GSFC/JPL, MISR Team

MISR Views a Fire-Scarred Landscape

This image pair from NASA Terra satellite shows before and after views of a dry sagerush fire in the area around the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Washington, in June, 2000. NASA/GSFC/JPL, MISR Team

MISR Looks at Sydney and the Southeastern Australia Coast

This image from NASA Terra satellite was acquired on July 11, 2000 Terra orbit 3009 and shows a 200-kilometer section of the eastern Australian coast, centered around the Sydney metropolitan area. NASA/GSFC/JPL... More

MISR and AirMISR Simultaneously Observe African Grassland Fires

These images from NASA Terra satellite images are of northeastern South Africa, near Kruger National Park, were acquired on September 7, 2000. NASA/GSFC/JPL, MISR and AirMISR Science Teams.

MISR Stereo Imaging Distinguishes Smoke from Cloud

This stereo view of western Alaska was acquired by NASA Terra satellite on June 25, 2000. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image. NASA/GSFC/JPL, MISR Team

MISR Views the Middle East. NASA public domain image colelction.

This image from NASA Terra satellite in August, 2000, shows the northern tip of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba frame the sandy deserts and spectacular mountains of the Sinai Peninsula. NAS... More

ASTER Andes - NASA satellite images

In this image of the Andes along the Chile-Bolivia border, the visible and infrared data have been computer enhanced to exaggerate the color differences of the different materials. The scene is dominated by the... More

ASTER Washington, D.C. - NASA satellite images

The White House, the Jefferson Memorial, and the Washington Monument with its shadow are all visible in this image of Washington, D.C. With its 15-meter spatial resolution, ASTER can see individual buildings. T... More

ASTER Gibraltar - NASA satellite images

The Strait of Gibraltar separates Spain from Morocco. This image, acquired on July 5, 2000, covers an area 34 kilometers (21 miles) wide and 59 kilometers (37 miles) long in three bands of the reflected visible... More

ASTER Tibet - NASA satellite images

The Kunlun fault is one of the gigantic strike-slip faults that bound the north side of Tibet. Left-lateral motion along the 1,500-kilometer (932-mile) length of the Kunlun has occurred uniformly for the last 4... More

ASTER Mexicali - NASA satellite images

Dramatic differences in land use patterns are highlighted in this image of the U.S.-Mexico border. Lush, regularly gridded agricultural fields on the U.S. side contrast with the more barren fields of Mexico. Th... More

ASTER Suez Canal - NASA satellite images

One of the most important waterways in the world, the Suez Canal runs north to south across the Isthmus of Suez in northeastern Egypt. This image of the canal covers an area 36 kilometers (22 miles) wide and 60... More

ASTER Waves - NASA satellite images

The pattern on the right half of this image of the Bay of Bengal is the result of two opposing wave trains colliding. This ASTER sub-scene, acquired on March 29, 2000, covers an area 18 kilometers (13 miles) wi... More