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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-17 Earth Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
 C-Band Interferometric Radar
X-Band Radar
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This stereoscopic shaded relief image from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission shows Africa's topography. Also shown are Madagascar, the Arabian Peninsula, and other adjacent regions. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA04964:
Africa in SRTM 3-D, Anaglyph of Shaded Relief
Full Resolution:     TIFF (123.1 MB)     JPEG (13.79 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-17 Earth Landsat
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
 C-Band Interferometric Radar
X-Band Radar
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Cape Town and the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, appear in the foreground of this perspective view generated from a Landsat satellite image and elevation data from NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour.
PIA04961:
Cape Town, South Africa, Perspective View, Landsat Image over SRTM Elevation
Full Resolution:     TIFF (8.727 MB)     JPEG (581.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-17 Earth Landsat
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
 C-Band Interferometric Radar
X-Band Radar
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Cape Town and the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, appear on the left (west) of this anaglyph from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA04960:
Cape Town, South Africa, Anaglyph, Landsat Image over SRTM Elevation
Full Resolution:     TIFF (26.41 MB)     JPEG (2.219 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-17 Earth Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
 C-Band Interferometric Radar
X-Band Radar
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Three striking and important areas of Tanzania in eastern Africa are shown in this color-coded shaded relief image from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
PIA04959:
Olduvai Gorge, Shaded Relief and Colored Height
Full Resolution:     TIFF (17.33 MB)     JPEG (1.018 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-17 Earth Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
 C-Band Interferometric Radar
X-Band Radar
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The striking contrast of geologic structures in Africa is shown in this shaded relief image of Mt. Elgon on the left and a section of the Great Rift Valley on the right as seen by NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
PIA04958:
Mt. Elgon, Africa, Shaded Relief and Colored Height
Full Resolution:     TIFF (17.31 MB)     JPEG (1.24 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-17 Earth Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
 C-Band Interferometric Radar
X-Band Radar
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The Sinai Peninsula, located between Africa and Asia, is a result of those two continents pulling apart from each other as seen by NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
PIA04957:
Sinai Peninsula, Shaded Relief and Colored Height
Full Resolution:     TIFF (56.53 MB)     JPEG (3.751 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-08 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS)
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This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, shows the wispy filamentary structure of Henize 206, is a four-color composite mosaic created by combining data from an infrared array camera (IRAC).
PIA05517:
Star Formation in Henize 206
Full Resolution:     TIFF (8.739 MB)     JPEG (428.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-04 Earth Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
 C-Band Radar
X-Band Radar
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The area known as the Afar Triangle is located at the northern end of the East Africa Rift, where it approaches the southeastern end of the Red Sea and the southwestern end of the Gulf of Aden as seen by NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
PIA04953:
Nabro and Mallahle Volcanoes, Eritrea and Ethiopia, SRTM Colored Height and Shaded Relief
Full Resolution:     TIFF (285.5 kB)     JPEG (23.34 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-22 Earth Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
 C-Band Radar
X-Band Radar
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The colored regions of this map show the extent of digital elevation data released by NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). This release includes data for most of Europe and Asia plus numerous islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
PIA03398:
SRTM Data Release for Eurasia, Index Map and Colored Height
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.646 MB)     JPEG (509.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-21 Earth Terra
 MISR
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NASA's Terra spacecraft saw a pall of smoke and dust largely obscured the nations of Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Burkina Faso and southern Mali on January 12, 2004.
PIA04350:
Hazy and Dusty Skies over Western Africa
Full Resolution:     TIFF (13.18 MB)     JPEG (658.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2003-10-24 Earth Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
 C-Band Interferometric Radar
X-Band Radar
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This perspective view shows the Strait of Gibraltar, which is the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. Europe (Spain) is on the left. Africa (Morocco) is on the right. The Rock of Gibraltar is the peninsula in the back left.
PIA03397:
Strait of Gibraltar, Perspective with Landsat Image Overlay
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.227 MB)     JPEG (185.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-29 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Named for a great river in Africa, the martian version is a system of eroding channels that empties into the Hellas impact basin as seen in this image captured by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft in September 2003.
PIA04764:
Niger Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-21 Earth Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
 C-Band Interferometric Radar
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These images of the world were generated with data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Two visualization methods were combined to produce the image: shading and color coding of topographic height.
PIA03394:
World Globes, Shaded Relief and Colored Height
Full Resolution:     TIFF (109.4 MB)     JPEG (35.2 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-19 Earth Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
 C-Band Interferometric Radar
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This anaglyph, from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, in South America is dominated by the Andes Mountains, which extend all along the Pacific Coast. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA03389:
Anaglyph, South America
Full Resolution:     TIFF (50.13 MB)     JPEG (6.633 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-19 Earth Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
 C-Band Interferometric Radar
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This image of South America was generated with data from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
PIA03388:
South America, Shaded Relief and Colored Height
Full Resolution:     TIFF (69.52 MB)     JPEG (8.202 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-04 Earth Terra
 MISR
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Global summaries of aerosol optical thickness from NASA's Terra spacecraft.
PIA04333:
Global and Seasonal Aerosol Distributions from MISR
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.079 MB)     JPEG (530.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-02 Earth Aqua
 AIRS
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This image shows average temperatures in April, 2003, observed by AIRS at an infrared wavelength that senses either the Earth's surface or any intervening cloud.
PIA00427:
Global Average Brightness Temperature for April 2003
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.867 MB)     JPEG (158.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-12 Earth Terra
 MISR
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On March 2, 2003, NASA's Terra spacecraft saw near-surface winds carrying a large amount of Saharan dust aloft and transported the material westward over the Atlantic Ocean.
PIA04322:
Casting Light and Shadows on a Saharan Dust Storm
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.043 MB)     JPEG (250.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2003-02-26 Earth Terra
 MISR
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Brightness variations in the terrain along a portion of southwestern Africa are displayed in these views from NASA's Terra spacecraft.
PIA04320:
Seasonal Surface Changes in Namibia and Central Angola
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.107 MB)     JPEG (111.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2003-02-12 Earth Terra
 MISR
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These images and data products from NASA's Terra spacecraft documented extensive smoke from fires burning throughout Nigeria and north central Africa on January 31, 2003.
PIA03897:
Smoke over Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.98 MB)     JPEG (681.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2003-01-08 Earth Terra
 ASTER
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The Anti-Atlas Mountains of Morocco formed as a result of the collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates about 80 million years ago.
PIA03893:
Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco
Full Resolution:     TIFF (11.27 MB)     JPEG (1.133 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2002-11-13 Earth Aqua
 AIRS
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Mt. Etna, a volcano on the island of Sicily, erupted on October 26, 2002, as seen by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounding System (AIRS) on NASA's Aqua.
PIA00355:
Mt. Etna Eruption
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.131 MB)     JPEG (120 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2002-09-18 Earth Terra
 MISR
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The Greek islands of the Aegean Sea, scattered across 800 kilometers from north to south and between Greece and western Turkey, are uniquely situated at the intersection of Europe, Asia and Africa. This image from NASA's Terra satellite was acquired on Se
PIA03725:
Islands in the Midst of the World
Full Resolution:     TIFF (8.296 MB)     JPEG (411.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2002-08-28 Earth Terra
 MISR
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These views from NASA's Terra satellite highlight a number of the land use, vegetation, and geological features found Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa.
PIA03722:
Highlights from Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.862 MB)     JPEG (313 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2002-08-22 Earth Landsat
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
 C-Band Interferometric Radar
Thematic Mapper
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Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest point in Africa, reaches 5,895 meters (19,340 feet) above sea level, tall enough to maintain a permanent snow cap despite being just south of the equator.This image is from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
PIA03355:
Perspective with Landsat Overlay, Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.589 MB)     JPEG (275.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2002-07-11 Earth Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
 C-Band Interferometric Radar
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Volcanic, tectonic, erosional and sedimentary landforms are all evident in these images from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission of a region along the East African Rift at Lake Kivu. The area shown covers parts of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda.
PIA03351:
Shaded Relief with Height as Color, Virunga and Nyiragongo Volcanoes and the East African Rift Valley
Full Resolution:     TIFF (78.98 MB)     JPEG (5.492 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
 THEMIS
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This image of Tharsis Rise from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a series of linear features called graben, which are associated with crustal extension resulting in up and down blocks of crust that run perpendicular to the direction of the extension.
PIA03810:
Tharsis Rise Graben
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.57 MB)     JPEG (409.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2002-03-06 Earth Terra
 MISR
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At Elands Bay in South Africa's Western Cape province, about 1000 tons of rock lobsters beached themselves during February 2002 when NASA's Terra satellite acquired these images.
PIA03447:
Red Tide Strands South African Rock Lobsters
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.909 MB)     JPEG (242.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2002-02-01 Earth Landsat
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
 C-Band Interferometric Radar
Thematic Mapper
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This anaglyph, from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, is of the Nyiragongo volcano in the Congo. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA03340:
Nyiragongo volcano, Congo, Anaglyph, SRTM / Landsat
Full Resolution:     TIFF (7.001 MB)     JPEG (499 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2002-02-01 Earth Landsat
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
 C-Band Interferometric Radar
Thematic Mapper
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The Nyiragongo volcano in the Congo erupted on January 17, 2002, and subsequently sent streams of lava into the city of Goma on the north shore of Lake Kivu. This image is from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
PIA03339:
Nyiragongo Volcano, Congo, Map View with Lava, Landsat / ASTER / SRTM
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.983 MB)     JPEG (168.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2002-02-01 Earth Landsat
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
 C-Band Interferometric Radar
Thematic Mapper
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The Nyiragongo volcano in the Congo erupted on January 17, 2002, and subsequently sent streams of lava into the city of Goma on the north shore of Lake Kivu. This image is from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
PIA03338:
Nyiragongo volcano, Congo, Perspective View with Lava SRTM / ASTER / Landsat
Full Resolution:     TIFF (368.7 kB)     JPEG (29.26 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2002-02-01 Earth Landsat
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
 C-Band Interferometric Radar
Thematic Mapper
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The Nyiragongo volcano in the Congo erupted on January 17, 2002, and subsequently sent streams of lava into the city of Goma on the north shore of Lake Kivu. This image is from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
PIA03337:
Nyiragongo volcano, Congo, Pre-eruption Perspective View, SRTM / Landsat
Full Resolution:     TIFF (368 kB)     JPEG (28.97 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2002-02-01 Earth Terra
 ASTER
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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.
PIA03462:
Nyiragonga Volcano
Full Resolution:     TIFF (997.9 kB)     JPEG (119.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2001-10-31 Earth Terra
 MISR
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The third largest river in Africa, the Niger, forms an inland delta in central Mali. This image is from NASA's Terra satellite is MISR Mystery Image Quiz #3.
PIA03429:
Where on Earth...? MISR Mystery Image Quiz #4:
Mali, Africa
Full Resolution:     TIFF (7.02 MB)     JPEG (305.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2001-10-22 Earth Terra
 ASTER
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This image acquired by NASA's Terra satellite on July 5, 2000 covers the eastern part of the Strait of Gibraltar, separating Spain from Morocco. The promontory on the eastern side of the conspicuous Spanish port is the Rock of Gibraltar.
PIA11167:
Strait of Gibraltar
Full Resolution:     TIFF (26.62 MB)     JPEG (1.024 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2001-08-29 Earth Terra
 MISR
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These images of the area around Sudan's capital city of Khartoum capture the river's dynamic nature. They were acquired by NASA's Terra's spacecraft.
PIA03420:
Nile River Fluctuations Near Khartoum, Sudan
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.15 MB)     JPEG (165.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2001-03-07 Earth Terra
 MISR
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The Nile River was captured by NASA's Terra satellite on January 30, 2001 (Terra orbit 5956). The Nile is the longest river in the world.
PIA02647:
The Nile
Full Resolution:     TIFF (7.185 MB)     JPEG (409.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2001-01-10 Earth Terra
 MISR
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This map shows the abundance of airborne particulates, or aerosols, over Southern Africa during the period August 14-September 29, 2000, when NASA's Terra satellite flew over the area.
PIA02640:
Airborne Particulates over Southern Africa
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.089 MB)     JPEG (182.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2000-12-04 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows layered outcrops of far west Candor Chasma on Mars.
PIA02839:
Layered Outcrops of Far West Candor Chasma
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.395 MB)     JPEG (241.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2000-11-22 Mars Mariner Mars 1971 (Mariner 9)
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NASA's Mariner 9 took this picture of Mars during the closing hours of its approach to the planet on November 13, 1971. It can be identified on a Mars map as Arsia Silva.
PIA02997:
Mariner 9 View of Arsia Silva
Full Resolution:     TIFF (29.36 MB)     JPEG (4.353 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2000-11-09 Earth Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP)
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The Eastern U.S., Europe, and Japan are brightly lit by their cities, while interiors of Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America are dark and lightly populated in this image created in 2000 by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
PIA02991:
Global City Lights
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.269 MB)     JPEG (250.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2000-10-11 Earth Terra
 MISR
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This image from NASA's Terra satellite ofYugoslavia was acquired on July 28, 2000 during Terra orbit 3248.
PIA02627:
MISR Looks at Yugoslavia
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.538 MB)     JPEG (488.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2000-10-06 Earth Terra
 ASTER
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One of the most important waterways in the world, the Suez Canal runs north to south across the Isthmus of Suez in northeastern Egypt. NASA's Terra satellite acquired the scene on May 19, 2000.
PIA02661:
ASTER Suez Canal
Full Resolution:     TIFF (19.92 MB)     JPEG (1.805 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2000-09-20 Earth Terra
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These images from NASA's Terra satellite images are of northeastern South Africa, near Kruger National Park, were acquired on September 7, 2000.
PIA02624:
MISR and AirMISR Simultaneously Observe African Grassland Fires
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.505 MB)     JPEG (86.42 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2000-09-12 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows compares a martian north polar dust storm observed on 29 August 2000 with a terrestrial dust storm on Earth acquired on 26 February, 2000.
PIA02807:
Recent Mars and Earth Dust Storms Compared
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.507 MB)     JPEG (164.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2000-08-30 Earth Terra
 MISR
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These images from NASA's Terra satellite images of Zambia and Botswana, Africa were acquired on August 25, 2000 during Terra orbit 3655.
PIA02621:
MISR Images Zambia and Botswana
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.403 MB)     JPEG (179.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2000-08-23 Earth Terra
 MISR
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These images from NASA's Terra satellite images of the Ntwetwe and Sua Pans in northeastern Botswana were acquired on August 18, 2000 (Terra orbit 3553).
PIA02620:
MISR Images Northeastern Botswana
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.985 MB)     JPEG (102.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2000-04-27 Earth Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
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This spaceborne radar image from NASA's Spaceborne Imaging Radar C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar shows part of the vast Namib Sand Sea on the west coast of southern Africa, just northeast of the city of Luderitz, Namibia.
PIA01856:
Space Radar Image of Namibia Sand Dunes
Full Resolution:     TIFF (86.77 MB)     JPEG (8.973 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2000-02-15 Earth Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
 C-Band Interferometric Radar
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This radar image acquired in February 2000 by NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission shows an area in the state of Bahia in Brazil.
PIA02706:
Shaded Relief of South Africa, Northern Cape Province
Full Resolution:     TIFF (24.95 MB)     JPEG (2.451 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1999-09-23 Earth Global Rain Forest Mapping Project (GRFM)
 JERS-1 SAR
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This is an image of equatorial Africa, centered on the equator at longitude 15degrees east. This image is a mosaic of almost 4,000 separate images obtained in 1996 by NASA's L-band imaging radar onboard the Japanese Earth Resources Satellite.
PIA01348:
Radar Mosaic of Africa
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.785 MB)     JPEG (616.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1999-06-12 Earth DSPSE
 Ultraviolet/Visible Camera
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During its flight and lunar orbit, NASA's Clementine spacecraft returned images of the planet Earth and the Moon.
PIA00432:
Clementine Images of Earth and Moon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.272 MB)     JPEG (132.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-01 Earth Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
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This is an image from NASA's Spaceborne Imaging Radar C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar of Central Africa, showing the Virunga volcano chain along the borders of Rwanda, Zaire and Uganda. This area is home to the endangered mountain gorillas.
PIA01736:
Space Radar Image of Karisoke & Virunga Volcanoes
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.857 MB)     JPEG (375 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-15 Earth Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
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This spaceborne radar image from NASA's Spaceborne Imaging Radar C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar shows how the Atlas Mountains in northwestern Africa dominate the geography of Morocco.
PIA01863:
Space Radar Image of Eastern Morocco
Full Resolution:     TIFF (35.28 MB)     JPEG (3.031 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-15 Earth Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
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This space radar image from NASA's Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture shows the area surrounding the Dead Sea along the West Bank between Israel and Jordan.
PIA01814:
Space Radar Image of Jerusalem and the Dead Sea
Full Resolution:     TIFF (19.16 MB)     JPEG (1.522 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1999-01-27 Earth Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
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This is a false-color radar image from NASA's Spaceborne Imaging Radar C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar of Central Africa, showing the Virunga Volcano chain along the borders of Rwanda, Zaire and Uganda, home to the endangered mountain gorillas.
PIA01724:
Space Radar Image of Central African Gorilla Habitat
Full Resolution:     TIFF (10.21 MB)     JPEG (1.071 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1999-01-27 Earth Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
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This is a C-band, VV polarization radar image of the Namib desert in southern Namibia, near the coast of South West Africa from NASA's Spaceborne Imaging Radar C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar.
PIA01720:
Space Radar Image of Namib Desert in Southern Namib
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-01-27 Earth Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
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This is a false-color image from NASA's Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar of the uninhabited Safsaf Oasis in southern Egypt near the Egypt/Sudan border.
PIA01711:
Space Radar Image of Safsaf, North Africa
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.76 MB)     JPEG (328.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-07-15 Ganymede Galileo
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A swath of grooved terrain named Erech Sulcus cuts north-south across the ancient dark terrain of Marius Regio. Mosaic images were taken by the Solid State Imaging (SSI) system on NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
PIA01615:
Swaths of Grooved Terrain on Ganymede
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-07-03 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor acquired this image on April 6, 1998. Shown here is the 'Face on Mars' feature in the Cydonia region.
PIA01442:
Mars Orbiter Camera Views the "Face on Mars" - Comparison with Viking
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-07-03 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor acquired this image on April 6, 1998. Shown here is the 'Face on Mars' feature in the Cydonia region.
PIA01441:
Mars Orbiter Camera Views the "Face on Mars" - calibrated, contrast enhanced, filtered, brightness-inverted
Full Resolution:     TIFF (570.9 kB)     JPEG (93.52 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-07-03 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor acquired this image on April 5, 1998. Shown here is the 'Face on Mars' feature in the Cydonia region.
PIA01440:
Mars Orbiter Camera Views the "Face on Mars" - calibrated, contrast enhanced, filtered
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-04-14 Earth Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
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The ability of a sophisticated radar instrument to image large regions of the world from space, using different frequencies that can penetrate dry sand cover, produced the discovery in this image: a previously unknown branch of an ancient river.
PIA01310:
Space Radar Image of Wadi Kufra, Libya
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-03-16 Earth Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
 L-Band Imaging Radar
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This radar image shows a close up view of a portion of the Richtersveld National Park and Orange River (top of image) in the Northern Cape Province of the Republic of South Africa.
PIA00822:
South Africa, Namibia Diamond Deposits (Close-up)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-03-16 Earth Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
 L-Band Imaging Radar
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This radar image covers a portion of the Richtersveld National Park and Orange River (top of image) in the Northern Cape Province of the Republic of South Africa.
PIA00821:
South Africa, Namibia Diamond Deposits
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-09-10 Earth Galileo
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This view of the Earth shows a wonderfully unique but physically impossible view of the southern hemisphere and Antarctica. While a spacecraft could find itself directly over the Earth's pole, roughly half of the image should be in darkness!
PIA00729:
South Polar Projection of Earth
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-09-10 Earth Galileo
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Global images of Earth from NASA's Galileo orbiter on December 11, 1999. In each frame, the continent of Antarctica is visible at the bottom of the globe.
PIA00728:
Global Images of Earth
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-13 Earth Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
 Imaging Radar
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This space radar image shows the Roter Kamm impact crater in southwest Namibia. The crater rim is seen in the lower center of the image as a radar-bright, circular feature.
PIA00503:
Roter Kamm Impact Crater in Namibia
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Venus Magellan
 Imaging Radar
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This image covers part of a deep valley on Venus called Devana Chasma. The image is a composite of the first two orbits recorded by NASA's Magellan spacecraft in August 1990 superimposed on Pioneer Venus topography.
PIA00464:
Venus - Magellan Data Superimposed on Pioneer Venus Data - Devana Chasma and Phoebe Regio
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-02-08 Earth Galileo
 Solid-State Imaging
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This near-infrared photograph of the Earth was taken by the Galileo spacecraft at 6:07 a.m. PST on Dec. 11, 1990, at a range of about 1.32 million miles. South America is prominent near the center.
PIA00226:
Global View of Earth in the Near-Infrared
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Earth Galileo
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This image of northeast Africa and the Arabian Peninsula was taken from an altitude of about 500,000 kilometers (300,000 miles) by NASA's Galileo spacecraft on December 9, 1992, as it left Earth en route to Jupiter.
PIA00127:
Earth - Northeast Africa and the Arabian Peninsula
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Earth Galileo
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This color image of the Earth was obtained by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in Dec. 1990, when the spacecraft was about 1.5 million miles from the Earth. Africa stretches from the center to the top of the picture with the Arabian Peninsula off to its right.
PIA00076:
Earth - Full Disk View of Africa
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