PDS logoPlanetary Data System
PDS Information
Find a Node - Use these links to navigate to any of the 8 publicly accessible PDS Nodes.

This bar indicates that you are within the PDS enterprise which includes 6 science discipline nodes and 2 support nodes which are overseen by the Project Management Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Each node is led by an expert in the subject discipline, supported by an advisory group of other practitioners of that discipline, and subject to selection and approval under a regular NASA Research Announcement.
Click here to return to the Photojournal Home Page Click here to view a list of Photojournal Image Galleries Photojournal_inner_header
Latest Images  |  Spacecraft & Technology  |  Animations  |  Space Images App  |  Feedback  |  Photojournal Search  
Your search criteria found 2317 images
Target is earth
Go to PIAxxxxx:
Refine this list of images by:
Target:
Mission:
Spacecraft:
Instrument:
Click on an image for detailed information
Click on a column heading to sort in ascending or descending order
My
List		 Addition DateSort Ascending Target Mission Instrument Size
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-10-05 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 3015x2742x3
This image, acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, is of Brittany, a cultural region in the northwest of France.
PIA15007:
Brittany, France
Full Resolution:     TIFF (24.81 MB)     JPEG (1.091 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-10-01 Earth Terra
 ASTER
InSAR
 1024x575x3
This still from an animation shows, in exaggerated terms, how the surface of the southern Central Valley of California deformed from the period 2007 to 2011.
PIA16293:
InSAR Measurements of Subsidence in California's Central Valley (June 2007--December 2010) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.767 MB)     JPEG (81.67 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-09-28 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 988x1146x3
Baikonur, formerly Leninsk, is a city in Kazakhstan rented and administered by the Russian Federation to service the Baikonur Cosmodrome where Sputnik launched in 1957. This image was acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft.
PIA16292:
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.398 MB)     JPEG (329.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-09-28 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1447x879x3
This image, acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, is of the abandoned town of Centralia, in eastern Pennsylvania's anthracite coal mining country.
PIA16291:
Centralia, Pennsylvania
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.817 MB)     JPEG (321.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-09-28 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1124x1282x3
This image, acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, is of Vladivostok, the administrative center of Primorsky Krai, Russia, and home port of the Russian Pacific Fleet, situated at the head of the Golden Horn Bay, Vladivostok.
PIA16290:
Vladivostok, Russia
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.325 MB)     JPEG (279.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-09-27 Earth 965x720x3
This image shows a dry streambed on an alluvial fan in the Atacama Desert, Chile, revealing the typical patchy, heterogeneous mixture of grain sizes deposited together.
PIA16191:
Dry Streambed on Alluvial Fan in Northern Chile
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.085 MB)     JPEG (221.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-09-21 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 2512x3452x3
This image, acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, is of the Pole Creek fire southwest of Sisters, Ore., which had grown to 24,000 acres as of Sept. 20, 2012. No structures have been destroyed, and the fire is mostly confined to the national forest.
PIA15884:
NASA Spacecraft Images Oregon Wildfire
Full Resolution:     TIFF (26.02 MB)     JPEG (648 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-09-13 Earth ADAPT
 3456x5184x3
This image was taken during a flight test of JPL's Autonomous Descent and Ascent Powered-Flight Testbed (ADAPT). The testbed was flown aboard a Masten Space System Xombie rocket.-Flight Testbed (ADAPT).
PIA16119:
ADAPT Rocket Test
Full Resolution:     TIFF (53.77 MB)     JPEG (1.477 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-09-06 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 2301x1207x3
Two satellite images acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, obtained about 10 years apart, clearly illustrate the effects of the near-historic drought conditions in southwestern Kansas. Farmers are among the hardest hit.
PIA16102:
NASA Spacecraft Captures Effects of U.S. Drought
Full Resolution:     TIFF (8.335 MB)     JPEG (569 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-08-30 Earth Aqua
 AIRS
 1200x1012x3
Strong tropical storm Isaac continues to create havoc across the Gulf Coast, from eastern Texas to Florida. This infrared image from NASA's Aqua spacecraft, was acquired at 2:41 p.m. CDT on Aug. 29, 2012.
PIA16113:
A Slow-moving Isaac Brings Flooding to Gulf States
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.645 MB)     JPEG (201.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-08-29 Earth Terra
 MISR
 875x1496x3
NASA's Terra spacecraft recorded low-level wind speeds of up to 75 miles per hour (65 knots) from cloud motion observed outside Tropical Storm Isaac's eye. The spacecraft flew over Isaac a few hours before Isaac was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane.
PIA16017:
NASA Spacecraft Image Shows Isaac's Inflow and Outflow
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.929 MB)     JPEG (192.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-08-27 Earth Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 2896x1944x3
Before NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars, the strata exposed in Mount Sharp were compared to those in the Grand Canyon of the western United States, shown here. Scientists are surprised by just how close the similarities are.
PIA16098:
Grand Canyon Similar to Mount Sharp
Full Resolution:     TIFF (16.9 MB)     JPEG (643.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-08-25 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 2620x1850x3
NASA's Terra spacecraft acquired this image on Aug. 24, 2012, 13 miles (20 kilometers) north of Vicksburg, Miss., as drought continued to afflict the U.S. Midwest, water levels of the Mississippi River approached historic lows.
PIA16097:
NASA Spacecraft Images Drought's Impacts on the Mighty Mississippi
Full Resolution:     TIFF (14.55 MB)     JPEG (829.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-08-20 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1588x1206x3
NASA's Terra spacecraft acquired this image, a birdseye view of the Canary Islands wildfire, on Aug. 17, 2012. The main town of San Sebastian can be seen on the eastern shore of the island.
PIA16076:
NASA Spacecraft Gets a Birdseye View of Canary Islands Wildfire
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.748 MB)     JPEG (251.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-08-15 Earth UAVSAR
 L-Band UAVSAR
 732x652x3
This false-color, oblique perspective image of the Slumgullion landslide in southwestern Colorado depicting its surface motion was created by data acquired by NASA's UAVSAR between two airplane flights in August 2011.
PIA16059:
NASA's UAVSAR Images Colorado's Slumgullion Landslide
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.432 MB)     JPEG (78.48 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-08-02 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1086x1002x3
This simulated natural color image of London was acquired May 26, 2012 by NASA's Terra spacecraft. Major construction projects included the new 400-acre Olympic Park for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
PIA15897:
NASA Spacecraft Captures a Medal-Worthy Image of London
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.266 MB)     JPEG (348.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-07-09 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 2201x3900x3
Acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft on in 2011, this image shows the Wadi As-Sirhan Basin in northwest Saudi Arabia, which has been steadily developing agricultural fields using center pivot irrigation by tapping into fossil ground water.
PIA15849:
Wadi As-Sirhan, Saudi Arabia
Full Resolution:     TIFF (25.76 MB)     JPEG (1.298 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-07-09 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1536x1507x3
NASA's 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 the Yukon River.
PIA15848:
Dawson, Canada
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.947 MB)     JPEG (436.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-07-06 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1200x1000x3
NASA's Terra spacecraft acquired this image of the Waldo Canyon Fire, west of Colorado Springs, Colo., being called the worst fire in Colorado history. Healthy vegetation is red, water is dark blue, streets and buildings are gray, and the burned areas are
PIA15847:
Colorado's Destructive Waldo Canyon Fire
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.602 MB)     JPEG (261.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-07-03 Earth Terra
 MISR
 948x962x3
On July 2, 2012, NASA's MISR instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft passed over the Horse Creek Fire and much larger Ash Creek Fire Complex in southeastern Montana, to the east of Billings, Mont.
PIA15839:
NASA's MISR Views Raging Wildfires in Southeastern Montana
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.737 MB)     JPEG (129.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-06-29 Earth Aqua
 AIRS
MODIS
 1920x1070x3
In this frame from an animation, NASA instruments show the seasonal cycle of vegetation and the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
PIA15838:
Effect of Seasonal Vegetation Cycle on Global Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.166 MB)     JPEG (200.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-06-25 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 2949x3723x3
Acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft on June 25, 2012, this image shows the High Park fire west of Fort Collins, Colo. More than 83,000 acres have been burned and approximately 250 homes, the most in Colorado history.
PIA15832:
NASA Spacecraft Images Colorado's Most Destructive Wildfire to Date
Full Resolution:     TIFF (32.95 MB)     JPEG (1.146 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-06-12 Earth Aquarius
 Aquarius
 3300x2550x3
NASA's Aquarius instrument on the Aquarius/SAC-D observatory gives an unprecedented look at a key factor involved in the formation of an oceanic wave feature in the tropical Pacific and Atlantic Oceans that influences global climate patterns.
PIA15799:
NASA's Aquarius Maps Ocean Salinity Structure
Full Resolution:     TIFF (8.427 MB)     JPEG (1.08 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-06-08 Earth LDSD
 5704x1697x3
Sled tests will allow NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator Project, or LDSD, to test inflatable and parachute decelerators to slow spacecraft prior to landing.
PIA15798:
NASA Tests Future Mars Landing Technology
Full Resolution:     TIFF (29.04 MB)     JPEG (641 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-06-07 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 678x1334x3
NASA's Terra spacecraft acquired this image on June 2, 2012 of Sheveluch, one of the most active volcanoes on the Kamchatka peninsula, with frequent explosive events that can disrupt air traffic over the northern Pacific.
PIA15792:
NASA Spacecraft Spots Large Eruption of Russian Volcano
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.716 MB)     JPEG (101.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-05-30 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1176x1118x3
NASA's Terra spacecraft acquired this image of Picher, Oklahoma which once boasted 20,000 people in this mining town in northeast Oklahoma. Now, after a 2009 tornado, and a federal cleanup program, the town is a modern-day ghost town.
PIA15821:
Picher, Oklahoma
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.946 MB)     JPEG (239.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-05-24 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1576x960x3
Acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, this image shows the Yarlung Zangpo Grand Canyon (or Tsangpo Gorge) in Tibet, the deepest canyon in the world, and longer than the Grand Canyon.
PIA15775:
Yarlung Zangpo Grand Canyon, Tibet
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.547 MB)     JPEG (387 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-05-15 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1878x1437x3
The Livermore and Spring Ranch fires near the Davis Mountain Resort, Texas, burned 13,000 and 11,000 acres respectively. When NASA's Terra spacecraft acquired this image on May 12, 2012, both fires had been contained.
PIA15657:
NASA Spacecraft Images Texas Wildfire
Full Resolution:     TIFF (8.108 MB)     JPEG (593.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-05-15 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1441x1281x3
Acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, this image shows the Three Gorges Dam which spans the Yangtze River in east-central China, and is the world's largest power station in terms of installed capacity.
PIA15655:
Three Gorges Dam, China
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.548 MB)     JPEG (405.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-30 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 4000x2400x3
Acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, this image shows the eastern end of the Gulf of Fonseca, in Honduras, originally the site of extensive wetlands ecosystem, dominated by six species of mangroves.
PIA15145:
Gulf of Fonseca, Honduras
Full Resolution:     TIFF (28.8 MB)     JPEG (1.656 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-27 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 351x827x3
NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Popocatepetl, the nearly 18.000-foot-high volcano about 40 miles southeast of Mexico City, continuing to spew water vapor, gas, ashes and glowing rocks from its latest eruption, which started in mid-April 2012.
PIA15617:
ASTER Tracks Continuing Popocatepetl Eruption
Full Resolution:     TIFF (872 kB)     JPEG (50.42 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-24 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 5800x2000x3
NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Mexico's active Popocatepetl volcano, located about 40 miles southeast of Mexico City, spewing water vapor, gas, ashes and glowing rocks since its most recent eruption period began in April 2012.
PIA14409:
NASA Spacecraft Images Mexican Volcanic Eruption
Full Resolution:     TIFF (34.8 MB)     JPEG (1.819 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-13 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 3144x2880x3
Acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, this image shows the west coast of Greenland, one of Earth's premiere incubators for icebergs -- large blocks of land ice that break off from glaciers or ice shelves and float in the ocean.
PIA13970:
NASA Spacecraft Images One of Earth's Iceberg Incubators
Full Resolution:     TIFF (27.16 MB)     JPEG (1.458 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-11 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1306x1066x3
Acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, this image shows a mine in Baiyun Ebo, Inner Mongolia, China, the site of almost half the world's rare earth production. China is responsible for over 95% of global production of rare earth elements.
PIA13969:
Baiyun Ebo, China
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.181 MB)     JPEG (302.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-10 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1340x1156x3
This image, acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, shows Fiji, hard hit by heavy rains in early 2012, causing flooding and landslides. Hardest hit was the western part of the main Island of Viti Levu, Fiji, and the principal city of Nadi.
PIA15557:
NASA Spacecraft Images Fiji Flooding
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.652 MB)     JPEG (262.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-03 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 2013x1573x3
This image, acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, shows Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, founded in 1496 Christopher Columbus, it is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas.
PIA15532:
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Full Resolution:     TIFF (9.512 MB)     JPEG (909 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-03-16 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 3873x3930x3
This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Nunavut, in northern Canada, the largest and newest federal territory of the country. The name means 'our land' in Inuktitut.
PIA13963:
Nunavut Territory, Canada
Full Resolution:     TIFF (45.66 MB)     JPEG (2.312 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-03-09 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 4038x2362x3
Extremely heavy rains fell at the end of February 2012 in the northern Algerian province of El Tarf, near the Tunisian border. The rainfall total was the greatest recorded in the last 30 years. This image is from NASA's Terra spacecraft.
PIA13962:
NASA Spacecraft Monitors Flooding in Algeria
Full Resolution:     TIFF (28.61 MB)     JPEG (1.458 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-03-01 Earth GOME-2
 1403x762x3
JPL-led study shows bromine explosion on March 13, 2008 across the Alaskan North Slope looking south toward the Brooks Range at the horizon, which blocked the bromine from going further south into the Alaskan interior.
PIA13961:
NASA Finds Sea Ice Driving Arctic Air Pollutants (Alaskan North Slope)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.214 MB)     JPEG (138.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-03-01 Earth GOME-2
 1403x763x3
JPL-led study shows bromine explosion on March 13, 2008 across the western Northwest Territories in Canada looking toward the Mackenzie Mountains at the horizon, which prevented the bromine from crossing over into Alaska.
PIA13960:
NASA Finds Sea Ice Driving Arctic Air Pollutants (Northwest Territories)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.218 MB)     JPEG (131.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-02-22 Earth Terra
 MISR
 1110x1437x3
This image of clouds over the southern Indian Ocean was acquired on July 23, 2007 was acquired by NASA's polar-orbiting Terra spacecraft.
PIA15399:
NASA Satellite Finds Earth's Clouds are Getting Lower
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.791 MB)     JPEG (346.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-02-16 Earth 1201x900x3
This shows how waves of energy from the Tohoku-Oki earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, pierced through into Earth's upper atmosphere in the vicinity of Japan, disturbing the density of electrons in the ionosphere.
PIA14430:
NASA 'Sees' Tohoku-Oki Earthquake and Tsunami in Earth's Upper Atmosphere Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.084 MB)     JPEG (136.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-02-08 Earth Terra
 MISR
 1362x1190x3
Acquired by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer instrument aboard NASA's Terra spacecraft, this image is from the MISR Where on Earth...? Mystery Quiz #27. The location is Jordan.
PIA13957:
Where on Earth...? MISR Mystery Image Quiz #27: Jordan
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.867 MB)     JPEG (226.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-02-08 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1664x1102x3
This image, from NASA's Terra spacecraft, is of the capital of Scotland, and lies along the Firth of Forth.
PIA15367:
Edinburgh, Scotland
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.51 MB)     JPEG (405.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-02-06 Earth Aura
 TES
 1021x575x3
This frame from an animation depicts the distribution of O3 and CO in the atmosphere over North America. This visualization is based on data acquired by NASA's Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES).
PIA15006:
O3 and CO Transects over North America Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.764 MB)     JPEG (110.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-02-06 Earth Aura
 TES
 1115x560x3
This frame from a time series, from one year of Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) measurements, shows how powerful the TES data are for understanding emissions, chemistry, and transport in the troposphere.
PIA15005:
Annual Variation in Global CO and O3 Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.876 MB)     JPEG (70.63 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-02-06 Earth 1023x578x3
This frame from an animation depicts the growth of the lava dome at Mount St. Helens during the most recent period of activity. Lidar data courtesy USGS.
PIA15004:
Growth of the Mount St. Helens Lava Dome, September 24-October 14, 2004 Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.776 MB)     JPEG (73.99 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-02-06 Earth Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
 1024x576x3
This frame from an animation depicts ground subsidence resulting from the extraction of oil. The oil fields are located near the community of Lost Hills, California, approximately 100 km northwest of Bakersfield.
PIA13204:
Lost Hills Subsidence Animation Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.772 MB)     JPEG (116.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-02-06 Earth 1023x574x3
This frame from an animation, which depicts the growth of the Kamoamoa Flow Field, Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, was generated from a sequence of ten multispectral images acquired between September 3 and 17, 1995.
PIA13203:
Kamoamoa Flow Field Animation Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.764 MB)     JPEG (72.41 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-02-06 Earth European Remote Sensing Satellite Mission (ERS)
 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
 1023x576x3
This frame from an animation depicts variations in surface elevation resulting from the discharge and recharge of groundwater basins in Southern California.
PIA13202:
Southern California INSAR Time Series Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.77 MB)     JPEG (87.02 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-02-06 Earth European Remote Sensing Satellite Mission (ERS)
 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
 1024x576x3
This frame from an animation depicts a time-series of ground deformation at Mount Etna Volcano between 1992 and 2001. The deformation results from changes in the volume of a shallow chamber centered approximately 5 km (3 miles) below sea level.
PIA13201:
Mount Etna InSAR Time Series Animation Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.772 MB)     JPEG (100.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-02-06 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1023x575x3
This frame is from a visualization of the rapid advance of the Esperanza Fire over the San Jacinto Mountains (Riverside County, CA) between 11:00 AM and 7:00 PM on October 26, 2006.
PIA13200:
Esperanza Wildfire Animation Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.767 MB)     JPEG (141.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-02-02 Earth GRACE
 K-Band Ranging System
 1058x720x3
This frame from an animation based on data from NASA's Grace satellite shows dramatic changes in Greenland's ice mass from 2003 through 2011 revealing how much ice has been lost and gained each year.
PIA13955:
Ice Mass Loss on Greenland, 2003-2011 Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.288 MB)     JPEG (78.67 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-01-30 Earth Suomi NPP
 VIIRS
 8000x8000x3
Behold one of the more stunningly detailed images of the Earth yet created. This Blue Marble Earth montage, created from photographs taken by the VIIRS instrument on board the Suomi NPP satellite, shows many stunning details of our home planet.
PIA18033:
Earth
Full Resolution:     TIFF (192.1 MB)     JPEG (7.241 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-01-23 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 918x791x3
This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft is of the Debra L. Friedkin archaeological site near Salado, Texas, a multicomponent site, with Clovis remains overlying pre-Clovis stone tools.
PIA15335:
Friedkin Archaeological Site, Texas
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.182 MB)     JPEG (154.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-01-20 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 746x620x3
In December, 2011, NASA's Terra spacecraft captured this image of a new volcanic island forming in the Red Sea. This region is part of the Red Sea Rift where the African and Arabian tectonic plates are pulling apart.
PIA13954:
NASA Spacecraft Images Some of Earth's Newest "Real Estate"
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.389 MB)     JPEG (41.59 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-01-10 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1962x3309x3
This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft is of the Isle of Man (also known as Mann), a self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland.
PIA15218:
Isle of Man
Full Resolution:     TIFF (19.5 MB)     JPEG (781.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-12-20 Kepler-20 Kepler
 4200x2700x3
This chart compares the first Earth-size planets found around a sun-like star to planets in our own solar system, Earth and Venus. NASA's Kepler mission discovered the newfound planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f.
PIA14886:
Earth-class Planets Line Up
Full Resolution:     TIFF (34.02 MB)     JPEG (440.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-12-14 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1281x1218x3
NASA's Terra spacecraft captured this image of the Laguna del Maule volcanic field which straddles the Andean range crest between Chile and Argentina.
PIA15205:
Maule Volcanic Field, Chile-Argentina
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.686 MB)     JPEG (364.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-12-07 Earth Aquarius
 Aquarius
 980x1558x3
Tropical Storm Lee made landfall over New Orleans on Sept. 2-3, 2011, with predicted rainfall of 15 to 20 inches (38 to 51 centimeters) over southern Louisiana. These charts are from NASA's Aquarius spacecraft.
PIA15185:
NASA's Aquarius Detects Possible Effects of Tropical Storm Lee in Gulf
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.587 MB)     JPEG (186.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-30 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 3801x2382x3
NASA's Terra spacecraft captured this image of the province of Al Jazirah, a region of great fertility which lies in the central Sudan between the White and Blue Niles south of Khartoum.
PIA15131:
Al Jazirah Province, Sudan
Full Resolution:     TIFF (27.16 MB)     JPEG (2.372 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-18 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 3726x5932x3
The flooding from the Chao Phraya River, Thailand, was draining slowly when this image was acquired on Nov. 17, 2011, by NASA's Terra spacecraft.
PIA13952:
NASA Spacecraft Shows Continued Flooding Woes in Thailand
Full Resolution:     TIFF (66.31 MB)     JPEG (6.327 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-15 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 2952x3479x3
This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows a massive crack across the Pine Island Glacier, a major ice stream that drains the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Eventually, the crack will extend all the way across the glacier.
PIA15077:
NASA Spacecraft Images Massive Crack in Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier
Full Resolution:     TIFF (30.81 MB)     JPEG (1.266 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-14 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1243x1121x3
This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the city of Tequila, Mexico. Its red volcanic soil surrounding Tequila is particularly well suited to the growing of blue agave, and more than 300 million plants are harvested each year.
PIA15073:
Tequila, Mexico
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.185 MB)     JPEG (192.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-10 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 4032x7962x3
NASA's Terra spacecraft acquired this image of flooding from the Chao Phraya River, Thailand on Nov. 8, 2011. The muddy water that had overflowed the banks of the river, flooding agricultural fields and villages, is seen in dark blue and blue-gray.
PIA15072:
NASA Spacecraft Depicts More Flooding in Thailand
Full Resolution:     TIFF (96.31 MB)     JPEG (4.98 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-02 Earth Terra
 MISR
 864x812x3
This image was acquired by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer instrument aboard NASA's Terra spacecraft. This image is from the MISR Where on Earth...? Mystery Quiz #26.
PIA15016:
Where on Earth...? MISR Mystery Image Quiz #26: Costa Rica
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.107 MB)     JPEG (164.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-02 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 2461x2376x3
Flooding from the Chao Phraya River, Thailand, had begun to ebb in this image acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft on Nov. 1, 2011. Here, in blue-gray is the muddy water that had overflowed the banks of the river, flooding agricultural fields and villages.
PIA15018:
NASA Satellite Continues to Monitor Thailand Floods
Full Resolution:     TIFF (17.56 MB)     JPEG (1.603 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-02 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 3024x3800x3
In July 2011, volcanic tremors began on the Island of El Hierro in the Canary Islands; by September, many tourists evacuated the resort island, fearing a volcanic eruption. This image is from NASA's Terra spacecraft.
PIA15017:
NASA Satellite Tracks Underwater Volcanic Eruption in Canary Islands
Full Resolution:     TIFF (34.47 MB)     JPEG (1.318 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-01 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 3900x3308x3
This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Northern Namibia, known for its widespread bare and sinuous parallel dunes, most of them red.
PIA15015:
Sand Dunes, Namibia
Full Resolution:     TIFF (38.7 MB)     JPEG (2.612 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-10-29 Earth Terra
 MISR
 1611x2361x3
NASA's Terra satellite presents this 'false color' view of portions of Wisconsin and Michigan, including Devil's Lake, Druid Lake, Ghost Lake, Spider Lake, and Witches Lake in Wisconsin; and Bat Lake, Corpse Pond and Witch Lake in Michigan.
PIA15009:
NASA Satellite Scares Up An Eerie Image of Haunted Lakes and Ghost Ships
Full Resolution:     TIFF (11.43 MB)     JPEG (679.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-10-28 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 2589x3870x3
On Oct. 25, 2011, the Chao Phraya River was in flood stage as NASA's Terra spacecraft imaged flooded agricultural fields and villages depicted here in dark blue, and the sediment-laden water in shades of tan.
PIA15008:
NASA Spacecraft Images Continued Thailand Flooding
Full Resolution:     TIFF (30.09 MB)     JPEG (2.393 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-10-25 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1482x1298x3
On Oct. 23, 2011, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck eastern Turkey, near the city of Van, the result of the collision between the Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates. Turkey is a tectonically active country, experiencing frequent devastating earthquakes.
PIA14979:
NASA Images Topography of Quake-Stricken Eastern Turkey
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.782 MB)     JPEG (523.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-10-25 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 3780x7128x3
On Oct. 23, 2011, when this image from NASA's Terra spacecraft was acquired, flood waters were approaching the capital city of Bangkok as the Ayutthaya River overflowed its banks.
PIA14972:
NASA's Terra Spacecraft Images Thailand Flooding
Full Resolution:     TIFF (80.83 MB)     JPEG (4.922 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-10-17 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1280x720x3
Sometimes called 'The Gathering Place,' Oahu is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands. This image was captured by NASA's Terra spacecraft. A flyover was created by draping ASTER image data acquired January 13, 2010.
PIA14898:
NASA Flyover of Oahu, Hawaii Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.768 MB)     JPEG (93.48 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-10-14 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1434x1082x3
NASA's Terra spacecraft provided this view of the eastern part of Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona in this image on July 14, 2011. This view looks to the west, with tourist facilities of Grand Canyon Village visible in the upper left.
PIA14897:
A Spacebird's-eye View of the Grand Canyon from NASA's Terra Spacecraft
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.664 MB)     JPEG (404.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-10-14 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1460x1452x3
Arguably one of America's most magnificent national parks is the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona. NASA's Terra spacecraft captured this image looking to the northeast, the buildings and roads in the center foreground are Grand Canyon Village.
PIA14896:
NASA Satellite Reveals Grandeur of Arizona's Grand Canyon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.372 MB)     JPEG (510.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-10-13 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1458x1049x3
At 14,505 feet high, Mt. Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous U.S., is located in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains, on the west side of Owens Valley. The Alabama Hills appear in the foreground of this image from NASA's Terra spacecraft.
PIA14895:
NASA's Terra Spacecraft Views Mt. Whitney, the Highest Point in the Contiguous United States
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.597 MB)     JPEG (227.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-10-12 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 4531x6005x3
This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft is of Franz Josef Land, an archipelago in the far north of Russia. It consists of 191 islands covering an area of about 200 by 325 km, and has no native inhabitants.
PIA14862:
Franz Josef Land, Russia
Full Resolution:     TIFF (81.63 MB)     JPEG (3.588 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-10-02 Earth Aura
 MLS
 708x312x3
In mid-March 2011, NASA's Aura spacecraft observed ozone in Earth's stratosphere -- low ozone amounts are shown in purple and grey colors, large amounts of chlorine monoxide are shown in dark blue colors.
PIA14824:
Unprecedented Arctic Ozone Loss in 2011
Full Resolution:     TIFF (663.8 kB)     JPEG (44.02 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-27 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1970x1800x3
NASA's Terra spacecraft captured this image of the city of Jhudo, Pakistan, and surrounding countryside on Sept. 24, 2011. Torrential monsoon rains in south Asia have displaced hundreds of thousands of residents in India, Pakistan and Thailand.
PIA14792:
NASA Spacecraft Images Severe Flooding in South Asia
Full Resolution:     TIFF (10.65 MB)     JPEG (508.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-27 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 604x571x3
This image from NASA's Terra satellite is of Hue, Vietnam. The Perfume River flows through the Capital City, the Imperial City, the Forbidden Purple City and the inner city.
PIA14554:
Hue, Vietnam
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.036 MB)     JPEG (82.46 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-22 Earth Aquarius
 Aquarius
 2340x1024x3
NASA's Aquarius instrument has produced its first global map of the salinity, or saltiness, of Earth's ocean surface, providing an early glimpse of the mission's anticipated discoveries.
PIA14786:
NASA's "Salt of the Earth" Aquarius Reveals First Map
Full Resolution:     TIFF (7.197 MB)     JPEG (439.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-17 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1170x1089x3
This image from NASA's Terra satellite shows the only place in the United States where four states come together: the four corners area in the western U.S. At a barren, desert location, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico share a common point.
PIA14766:
Four Corners, United States
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.827 MB)     JPEG (262.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-13 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 1479x1422x3
The tri-county Riley Road wildfire burning in Texas north of Houston was 85 percent contained when NASA's Terra spacecraft acquired this image on Sept. 12, 2011. Burned areas are dark gray and black; vegetation red; and bare ground and roads light gray.
PIA14771:
NASA Spacecraft Images Texas Wildfire
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.321 MB)     JPEG (561.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-09 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 2276x3999x3
Brown and tan muddy water flows down the Hudson River are seen in this image acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft on Sept. 1, 2011. After the torrential rains from Hurricane Irene, many rivers in the eastern United States were filled with sediment.
PIA14770:
NASA Spacecraft Images Hudson River Flooding from Hurricane Irene
Full Resolution:     TIFF (27.34 MB)     JPEG (1.289 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-07 Earth Terra
 MISR
 1164x1607x3
As the remains of Tropical Storm Lee passed over Louisiana on Monday, Sept. 5, 2011, strong, gusty winds on the western side of the storm stoked fires throughout eastern Texas as seen in this image from NASA's Terra spacecraft.
PIA14769:
NASA's MISR Sees Wind-Whipped Fires in East Texas
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.618 MB)     JPEG (415.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-06 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 704x782x3
This image acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft is of La Chaux-de-Fonds, a Swiss city in the Jura Mountains, founded in 1656.
PIA14767:
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.654 MB)     JPEG (180.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-08-29 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 6600x4000x3
This image acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft shows unusually heavy rains over the upper Mekong River in Laos and Thailand that led to severe flooding in Cambodia in mid-August 2011. The city of Phnom Penh is at the bottom center of the image.
PIA14765:
NASA Spacecraft Images Cambodian Flooding
Full Resolution:     TIFF (79.2 MB)     JPEG (5.303 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-08-28 Earth Aqua
 AIRS
 900x695x3
This infrared image of Hurricane Irene from the AIRS instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft, was taken at 2:47 a.m. EDT on Aug. 28. The storm's coldest cloud top temperatures and intense rains are shown in purples and blues.
PIA14743:
NASA Satellite Shows a Mean Irene's Fury
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.879 MB)     JPEG (123.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-08-27 Earth OSCAT
 OSCAT Scatterometer
 1201x900x3
This ISRO-NASA-JPL-Caltech collaborative image shows ocean wind vector data from ISRO's OceanSat 2 spacecraft of Hurricane Irene which made landfall early Saturday morning, Aug. 27, just west of Cape Lookout, NC.
PIA14742:
NASA/ISRO Image Shows Irene's Winds Before Landfall
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.247 MB)     JPEG (233.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-08-27 Earth Terra
 MISR
 1479x1029x3
NASA's Terra spacecraft passed over Hurricane Irene while it was just north of the Bahamas on Aug. 25, 2011. At the time, Irene was a category three hurricane making landfall in North Carolina on the morning of Aug. 27 as a category one hurricane.
PIA14741:
NASA's MISR Sees Cloud Heights at Top of Hurricane Irene
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.574 MB)     JPEG (286.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-08-24 Earth QuakeSim
 1400x1318x3
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake in Mineral, Va. was widely felt up and down the East Coast of the United States. This computer model is a QuakeSim model image overlaid on a Google Earth image.
PIA13950:
Computer Model Estimates Permanent Ground Motions from the Aug. 23, 2011 Magnitude 5.8 Virginia Earthquake
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.546 MB)     JPEG (490.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-08-18 Earth 455x256x3
This frame from an animation shows the motion of ice in Antarctica as measured by satellite data from various space agencies. The colors represent the speed of the ice flows in meters per year.
PIA14557:
Flow of Ice Across Antarctica Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (350 kB)     JPEG (35.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-08-18 Earth 1192x1192x3
This image is the first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antartica. The thick black lines delineate major ice divides. Subglacial lakes in Antarctica's interior are also outlined in black.
PIA14556:
NASA Research Leads to First Complete Map of Antarctic Ice Flows
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.268 MB)     JPEG (240.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-08-16 Earth Terra
 ASTER
 3750x2235x3
This image acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Carrizo Plain, located northwest of Los Angeles, CA. It is one of the easiest places to see surface fractures of the San Andreas Fault, evident as it crosses the image from lower right to upper left
PIA14555:
Carrizo Plain, California
Full Resolution:     TIFF (25.14 MB)     JPEG (1.607 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-08-06 Earth Juno
 JunoCam
 640x480x1
This image of Earth (at left) and the moon (at right) was taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft as part of a checkout of the probe's instruments following launch.
PIA18427:
Juno's Post-launch view of Earth and Moon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (307.7 kB)     JPEG (4.026 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-08-04 Earth Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 HiRISE
 1578x1065x3
This image comes from observations of Horowitz crater by the HiRISE camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The features that extend down the slope during warm seasons are called recurring slope lineae.
PIA14475:
Warm-Season Flows on Slope in Horowitz Crater (Eight-Image Sequence)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.684 MB)     JPEG (231.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-08-03 Earth Aqua
 AIRS
 900x695x3
Tropical Storm Emily continues its march toward Hispaniola, which it is expected to reach later on Aug. 3. NASA's Aqua spacecraft captured this infrared image 1:53 p.m. EDT on Aug. 3, with the storm located south of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
PIA14516:
NASA Image Captures Emily's Trek Toward Hispaniola
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.879 MB)     JPEG (116.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-08-03 Earth Terra
 MISR
 952x727x3
This image of Western Cape, South Africa was acquired by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument aboard NASA's Terra spacecraft. This image is from the MISR Mystery Image Quiz #25.
PIA14489:
Where on Earth...? MISR Mystery Image Quiz #25: Western Cape, South Africa
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.079 MB)     JPEG (146.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2011-08-02 Earth Aqua
 AIRS
 1000x1000x3
NASA's Aqua spacecraft continues to track the gradual organization of Tropical Storm Emily, as seen in this image taken Aug. 2, 2011 at 1:05 p.m. EDT. At that time, the storm was located about 270 miles southeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
PIA14515:
NASA Image Shows a Slightly Stronger Emily
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.004 MB)     JPEG (135.7 kB)
Retrieve Previous Set  Jump to a Previous Set   Jump to a Previous Set   Jump to a Previous Set   Jump to a Previous Set   Jump to a Previous Set   Jump to a Previous Set   Jump to a Previous Set   Jump to a Previous Set   Jump to a Previous Set   Current Set   Retrieve Next Set 
 1-100   101-200   201-300   301-400   401-500   501-600   601-700   701-800   801-900   901-1000 
Currently displaying images: 901 - 1000 of 2317