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L, C, and X-band Victoria, B
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This three-frequency spacebo
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3/14/96
| Date |
3/14/96 |
| Description |
This three-frequency spaceborne radar image shows the southern end of Vancouver Island on the west coast of Canada. The white area in the lower right is the city of Victoria, the capital of the province of British Columbia. The three radar frequencies help to distinguish different land use patterns. The bright pink areas are suburban regions, the brownish areas are forested regions, and blue areas are agricultural fields or forest clear- cuts. Founded in 1843 as a fur trading post, Victoria has grown to become one of western Canada's largest commercial centers. In the upper right is San Juan Island, in the state of Washington. The Canada/U.S. border runs through Haro Strait, on the right side of the image, between San Juan Island and Vancouver Island. The image was acquired by the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) on October 6, 1994, onboard the space shuttle Endeavour. The area shown is 37 kilometers by 42 kilometers (23 miles by 26 miles) and is centered at 48.5 degrees north latitude, 123.3 degrees west longitude. North is toward the upper left. The colors are assigned to different radar frequencies and polarizations as follows: red is L-band horizontally transmitted and received, green is C-band, vertically transmitted and received, and blue is X-band, vertically transmitted and received. SIR-C/X-SAR, a joint mission of the German, Italian and United States space agencies, is part of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth program. ##### |
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| Photo Description |
NASA's high-flying ER-2 takes off from the airport in San Jose, Costa Rica, on July 6, 2005 to collect hurricane data during the Tropical Cloud Systems and Processes mission. The NASA ER-2 airplane flew over hurricane Dennis as part of the Tropical Cloud Systems and Processes "TSCP" Mission. This 28-day field mission sponsored by NASA's Science Mission Directorate is studying the bursting conditions for tropical storms, hurricanes and related phenomena. The flight originated from TSCP's base-of-operations in San Juan Santa Maria airport in San Jose, Costa Rica. |
| Photo Date |
July 6, 2005 |
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Hurricane Frances
| Title |
Hurricane Frances |
| Description |
The MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured this true-color image of Hurricane Frances on August 31, 2004 at 17:55 UTC (1:55 PM EDT). At the time this image was taken Frances was located approximately 230 km (140 miles) north-northeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico and was moving towards the west near 26 km/hr (16 mph). Maximum sustained winds were near 225 km/hr (140 mph) and the storm's minimum central pressure was down to 942 millibars. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions and formats. NASA image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. |
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Hurricane Frances
| Title |
Hurricane Frances |
| Description |
The MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured this true-color image of Hurricane Frances swirling above the waters of the tropical Atlantic Ocean on August 31 at 14:45 UTC (10:45 AM EDT). At the time this image was taken Frances was located approximately 285 km (175 miles) northeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico and was moving towards the west at 24 km/hr (15 mph). Maximum sustained winds were near 215 km/hr (135 mph) with a minimum central pressure of 950 mb. This makes Frances a Category 4 storm on the Saffir/Simpson Scale. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions and formats. NASA image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. |
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Rocky Mountain Fires
| Title |
Rocky Mountain Fires |
| Description |
The Missionary Ridge Fire, 10 miles north of Durango, Colorado, has been burning since June 9. By July 4, 2002 the fire had consumed almost 73,000 acres in the San Juan National Forest, and destroyed 56 homes. At that time the blaze was 55 percent contained, but still threatened several subdivisions. This Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) image combines daytime and nighttime images acquired on June 30, 2002. The simulated natural color daytime image shows burned areas in dark blue and healthy vegetation in green. The red areas are active fires and hot areas captured during the nighttime data acquisition using ASTER?s thermal infrared channels. The right side of the image was only captured at night. The image covers an area of 40 x 38 km (25 x 24 miles). More news about current wildfires in the United States is available from the National Fire Information Center. [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/redirect?http://www.nifc.gov/ ] Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/redirect?http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/ ] |
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Flooding in Southern Mexico
| Title |
Flooding in Southern Mexico |
| Description |
Already saturated from a heavier-than-normal summer monsoon season, rivers and reservoirs along Mexico?s Gulf coast swelled to overflowing in the wake of Tropical Storm Larry. The storm came ashore on October 5, 2003 and moved slowly across the Yucatan peninsula dumping as much as 20 inches of rain in coastal areas and 4-10 inches in the interior. See Tropical Depression Larry [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=11759 ] for rainfall totals between September 30 and October 7, 2003. Clouds, light blue in this false color image, still lingered over the southern regions of Mexico?s Veracruz state on October 8, 2003 (top). Standing water appears dark blue and black, while vegetation is bright green. Bare earth is light pinkish tan. Running from the coast southwest across the peninsula, the San Juan River is most noticeably flooded in the top image. The Miguel Aleman Reservoir, center left, also appears to be much fuller that it was on May 5, 2003 (bottom). Both of these false-color images were taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] (MODIS) sensor on the Terra satellite. The high-resolution image provided above is at MODIS? maximum spatial resolution of 250 meters per pixel. Image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC |
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Flooding in Southern Mexico
| Title |
Flooding in Southern Mexico |
| Description |
Already saturated from a heavier-than-normal summer monsoon season, rivers and reservoirs along Mexico?s Gulf coast swelled to overflowing in the wake of Tropical Storm Larry. The storm came ashore on October 5, 2003 and moved slowly across the Yucatan peninsula dumping as much as 20 inches of rain in coastal areas and 4-10 inches in the interior. See Tropical Depression Larry [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=11759 ] for rainfall totals between September 30 and October 7, 2003. Clouds, light blue in this false color image, still lingered over the southern regions of Mexico?s Veracruz state on October 8, 2003 (top). Standing water appears dark blue and black, while vegetation is bright green. Bare earth is light pinkish tan. Running from the coast southwest across the peninsula, the San Juan River is most noticeably flooded in the top image. The Miguel Aleman Reservoir, center left, also appears to be much fuller that it was on May 5, 2003 (bottom). Both of these false-color images were taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] (MODIS) sensor on the Terra satellite. The high-resolution image provided above is at MODIS? maximum spatial resolution of 250 meters per pixel. Image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC |
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Corrientes, Argentina, and t
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Corrientes, Argentina (popul
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ISS010-E-5070_Corrientes
| mediatype |
IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2004-10-25 |
| creator |
NASA -- Astronaut photograph eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS010&roll=E&frame=5070 ISS010-E-5070 was acquired October 25, 2004, with a Kodak K-760C digital camera with an 800-millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group, Johnson Space Center. The spaceflight.nasa.gov/home/index.html International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC eol.jsc.nasa.gov Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. |
| identifier |
ISS010-E-5070_Corrientes |
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Goosenecks State Park, Utah:
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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The sinuous black ribbon of
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goosenecks_iko_2004129
| mediatype |
IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2004-05-09 |
| creator |
NASA -- Image copyright www.spaceimaging.com/ Space Imaging |
| identifier |
goosenecks_iko_2004129 |
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Dust Storm Sweeps from Afric
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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A massive sandstorm blowing
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seawifs_canary_duststorm
| mediatype |
IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2000-02-26 |
| creator |
NASA -- Image courtesy Norman Kuring, SeaWiFS Project |
| identifier |
seawifs_canary_duststorm |
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Dust Storm Sweeps from Afric
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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A massive sandstorm blowing
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seawifs_canary_duststorm
| mediatype |
IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2000-02-26 |
| creator |
NASA -- Image courtesy Norman Kuring, SeaWiFS Project |
| identifier |
seawifs_canary_duststorm |
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Great Sand Dunes National Pa
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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The Sangre de Cristo Mountai
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ISS016-E-6986
| mediatype |
IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2007-10-26 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
ISS016-E-6986 |
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Rocky Mountain Fires: Natura
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
The Missionary Ridge Fire, 1
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aster_missionary_ridge
| mediatype |
IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2002-06-30 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
aster_missionary_ridge |
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Season's First Snow in Color
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Snowfall returned to the mou
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Colorado_TMO2002263
| mediatype |
IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2002-09-20 |
| creator |
NASA -- Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC |
| identifier |
Colorado_TMO2002263 |
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Volcanic Rocks, Southwestern
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Situated in the San Juan Mou
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wheeler_ast_2007307
| mediatype |
IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2007-11-03 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
wheeler_ast_2007307 |
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Bandelier National Monument,
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Bandelier National Monument
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l7_bandolier_14oct99
| mediatype |
IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
1999-10-14 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA image created Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/index.shtml University of Maryland's Global Land Cover Facility |
| identifier |
l7_bandolier_14oct99 |
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Bandelier National Monument,
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Bandelier National Monument
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l7_bandolier_14oct99
| mediatype |
IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
1999-10-14 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA image created Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/index.shtml University of Maryland's Global Land Cover Facility |
| identifier |
l7_bandolier_14oct99 |
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Hurricane Frances: Natural H
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
The MODIS instrument aboard
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Frances_amo2004244
| mediatype |
IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2004-08-31 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
Frances_amo2004244 |
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Hurricane Frances: Natural H
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
The MODIS instrument aboard
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Frances_tmo2004244
| mediatype |
IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2004-08-31 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
Frances_tmo2004244 |
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Flooding in Southern Mexico:
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Already saturated from a hea
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modis_smexflood_08oct03
| mediatype |
IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2003-10-08 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
modis_smexflood_08oct03 |
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Flooding in Southern Mexico:
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Already saturated from a hea
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modis_smexflood_08oct03
| mediatype |
IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2003-10-08 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
modis_smexflood_08oct03 |
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Dust Reduces Snow Cover in t
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Yearly snow cover can fluctu
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sanjuans_amo_2006102
| mediatype |
IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2006-04-12 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA image courtesy the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. The Rapid Response Team provides rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?AERONET_BSRN_BAO_Boulder daily images of this region. |
| identifier |
sanjuans_amo_2006102 |
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Perspective View with Landsa
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PIA03366
Sol (our sun)
C-Band Interferometric Radar
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| Title |
Perspective View with Landsat Overlay, Costa Rica |
| Original Caption Released with Image |
This perspective view shows the Caribbean coastal plain of Costa Rica, with the Cordillera Central rising in the background and the Pacific Ocean in the distance. The prominent river in the center of the image is the Rio Sucio, which merges with the Rio Sarapiqui at the bottom of the image and eventually joins with Rio San Juan on the Nicaragua border. Like much of Central America, Costa Rica is generally cloud covered so very little satellite imagery is available. The ability of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) instrument to penetrate clouds and make three-dimensional measurements will allow generation of the first complete high-resolution topographic map of the entire region. These data were used to generate the image. This three-dimensional perspective view was generated using elevation data from SRTM and an enhanced false-color Landsat 7 satellite image. Colors are from Landsat bands 5, 4, and 2 as red, green and blue, respectively. Topographic expression is exaggerated two times. Landsat has been providing visible and infrared views of the Earth since 1972. SRTM elevation data matches the 30-meter resolution of most Landsat images and will substantially help in analyses of the large and growing Landsat image archive. The Landsat 7 Thematic Mapper image used here was provided to the SRTM by the United States Geological Survey, Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center, Sioux Falls, S.D. Elevation data used in this image was acquired by the SRTM aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, launched on February 11, 2000. SRTM used the same radar instrument that comprised the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) that flew twice on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1994. SRTM was designed to collect three-dimensional measurements of the Earth's surface. To collect the 3-D data, engineers added a 60-meter-long (200-foot) mast, installed additional C-band and X-band antennas, and improved tracking and navigation devices. The mission is a cooperative project between NASA, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and the German and Italian space agencies. It is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., for NASA's Earth Science Enterprise, Washington, D.C. Size: scale varies in this perspective image Location: 10.4 degrees North latitude, 84.0 degrees West longitude Orientation: looking Southwest Image Data: Landsat Bands 5, 4, 3 as red, green, blue respectively Original Data Resolution: SRTM 30 meters (99 feet) Date Acquired: February 2000 (SRTM) |
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SRTM Perspective View with L
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PIA03315
Sol (our sun)
C-Band Interferometric Radar
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| Title |
SRTM Perspective View with Landsat Overlay: Costa Rica Coastal Plain |
| Original Caption Released with Image |
Defense(DoD), and the German and Italian space agencies. It is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, for NASA's Earth Science Enterprise,Washington, DC. Size: scale varies in this perspective image Location: 10.5 deg. North lat., 84.0 deg. East lon. Orientation: looking South Image Data: Landsat Bands 5, 4, 3 as red, green, blue respectively Original Data Resolution: SRTM 30 meters (99 feet) Date Acquired: February, 2000 (SRTM), This perspective view shows the northern coastal plain of Costa Rica with the Cordillera Central, composed of a number of active and dormant volcanoes, rising in the background. This view looks toward the south over the Rio San Juan, which marks the boundary between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. The smaller river joining Rio San Juan in the center of the image is Rio Sarapiqui, which is navigable upstream as far inland as Puerto Viejo (Old Port) de Sarapiquà at the mountain's base. This river was an important transportation route for those few hardy settlers who first moved into this region, although as recently as 1953 a mere three thatched-roof houses were all that comprised the village of Puerto Viejo. This coastal plain is a sedimentary basin formed about 50 million years ago composed of river alluvium and lahar (mud and ash flow) deposits from the volcanoes of the Cordillera Central. It comprises the province of Heredia (the smallest of Costa Rica's seven) and demonstrates a wide range of climatic conditions, from warm and humid lowlands to cool and damp highlands, and including the mild but seasonally wet and dry Central Valley. This image was generated in support of the Central American Commission for Environment and Development through an agreement with NASA. The Commission involves eight nations working to develop the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor, an effort to study and preserve some of the most biologically diverse regions of the planet. This three-dimensional perspective view was generated using topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and an enhanced false-color Landsat 7 satellite image. Colors are from Landsat bands 5, 4, and 2 as red, green and blue, respectively. Topographic expression is exaggerated 2X. Landsat has been providing visible and infrared views of the Earth since 1972. SRTM elevation data matches the 30-meter resolution of most Landsat images and will substantially help in analyses of the large and growing Landsat image archive. The Landsat 7 Thematic Mapper image used here was provided to the SRTM by the United States Geological Survey, Earth Resources Observation Systems(EROS) Data Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Elevation data used in this image was acquired by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, launched on February 11,2000. SRTM used the same radar instrument that comprised the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) that flew twice on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1994. SRTM was designed to collect three-dimensional measurements of the Earth's surface. To collect the 3-D data, engineers added a 60-meter-long (200-foot) mast, installed additional C-band and X-band antennas, and improved tracking and navigation devices. The mission is a cooperative project between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) of the U.S. Department of |
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| General Description |
STS-73 Shuttle Mission Imagery |
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| General Description |
STS-100 Shuttle Mission Imagery |
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View of sand dunes in the Sa
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| Title |
View of sand dunes in the San Juan Province of Western Argentina |
| Description |
A near vertical view of sand dunes in the San Juan Province of Western Argentina, as photographed from the Apollo spacecraft in Earth orbit during the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) mission. The picture was taken at an altitude of 220 kilometers (136 statute miles). The photograph was taken at an altitude of 228 kilometers (141 statute miles). |
| Date Taken |
1975-07-20 |
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Grand Canyon, Colorado as se
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| Title |
Grand Canyon, Colorado as seen from STS-62 |
| Description |
In this view, the Colorado River can be seen flowing southwest from top left to bottom center-right. The dark wider sections of the river are the water surface of Lake Powell (center, and top left), 110 miles long in a straight line. Grand Canyon National Monument lies lower right, centered on the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, a 10 mile-wide gash carved more than 5,000 feet deep by the Colorado. The Canyon has cut into the Kaibab Plateau, an uplifted area visible here as a forested area with snow on the highest northern parts. The surrounding parts of the Colorado Plateau are sparsely occupied by brush vegetation and appear yellow-brown. The dark area top right is the wooded country of Black Mesa in Navajoland, divided from Lake Powell by the San Juan River. Four Corners is just outside the pictures (top) where the states of Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico meet. The Henry Mountains appear top left. Apart from Grand Canyon National Monument, several other famous national mo |
| Date Taken |
1994-03-05 |
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