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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-02-12 Earth Terra
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Ambrym volcano in Vanuatu is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. A large summit caldera contains two active vent complexes, Marum and Benbow is seen in this February 12, 2014 nighttime thermal infrared image from NASA's Terra spacecraft.
PIA18067:
Nighttime Look at Ambrym Volcano, Vanuatu by NASA Spacecraft
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-02-11 Earth Terra
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This image acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft is of Mt. Etna, Europe's most active volcano, as it continued its latest eruptive activity with a new lava flow from the recently formed southeast crater.
PIA17979:
Latest Activity at Europe's Most Active Volcano Captured by NASA Spacecraft
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-02-11 Earth Terra
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This image acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft is of Mount Sinabung, a stratovolcano located in Indonesia. In late 2013, a lava dome formed on the summit. In early January 2014, the volcano erupted, and it erupted again in early February.
PIA17978:
Angry Indonesian Volcano Imaged by NASA Spacecraft
Full Resolution:     TIFF (13.93 MB)     JPEG (800.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-02-06 Earth Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This view of the twilight sky and Martian horizon taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover includes Earth as the brightest point of light in the night sky. Earth is a little left of center in the image, and our moon is just below Earth.
PIA17936:
Bright 'Evening Star' Seen from Mars is Earth
Full Resolution:     TIFF (19.21 MB)     JPEG (389.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-02-06 Earth Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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The two bodies in this portion of an evening-sky view by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity are Earth and Earth's moon. The rover's Mast Camera (Mastcam) imaged them in the twilight sky of Curiosity's 529th Martian day, or sol (Jan. 31, 2014).
PIA17935:
Curiosity Mars Rover's First Image of Earth and Earth's Moon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (39.55 kB)     JPEG (1.009 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-02-05 Earth Terra
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The 2014 Winter Olympic ski runs may be rated double black diamond, but they're not quite as steep as they appear in this image acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, of the skiing and snowboarding sites for the Sochi Winter Olympic Games.
PIA17971:
Sochi, Russia Winter Olympic Sites (Mountain Cluster)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.616 MB)     JPEG (438.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-02-05 Earth Terra
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This image acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Sochi Olympic Park Coastal Cluster, the circular area on the shoreline in the bottom center of the image, which was built for Olympic indoor sports.
PIA17970:
Sochi, Russia Winter Olympic Sites (Coastal Cluster)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.553 MB)     JPEG (367.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-02-05 Earth Terra
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This image acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft is of the Sierra Leone estuary, which became a focal point for trade and interaction between Africans and Europeans because of its exceptional harbor, starting in the mid-15th century.
PIA17977:
Sierra Leone Estuary
Full Resolution:     TIFF (19.16 MB)     JPEG (856.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-01-28 Earth UAVSAR
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This image shows a small part of the Hofsjökull ice cap in Iceland, which encompasses several glaciers. The fan at upper left is part of a glacier called Mûlaj&oumlkul.
PIA17924:
NASA Radar Maps the Winter Pace of Iceland's Glaciers
Full Resolution:     TIFF (53.78 MB)     JPEG (1.748 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-01-28 Earth Terra
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On Jan. 16, 2014, NASA's Terra spacecraft acquired this image of a wildfire broke that out in the mountains above the Los Angeles suburbs of Glendora and Azusa.
PIA17923:
NASA's Terra Spacecraft Images Destructive Colby Fire East of Los Angeles
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.602 MB)     JPEG (342.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-01-22 Earth Terra
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This image acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft is of the Kingdom of Bahrain, a small island country near the western shore of the Persian Gulf.
PIA17899:
Kingdom of Bahrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-01-22 Earth RapidScat
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Artist's rendering of NASA's ISS-RapidScat instrument (inset), which will launch to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ocean surface wind speed and direction and help improve weather forecasts, including hurricane monitoring.
PIA17897:
ISS-RapidScat
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-01-22 Earth OCO-2
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Artist's rendering of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2, one of five new NASA Earth science missions set to launch in 2014, and one of three managed by JPL.
PIA17896:
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) (Artist Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-01-18 Earth Terra
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On Jan. 16, 2014, NASA's Terra satellite passed over Glendora, Calif., where a large wildfire has claimed several homes, causing mandatory evacuations and prompting an air quality alert by public health officials.
PIA17883:
NASA Spacecraft Sees Dispersion of Smoke and Ash Across LA Basin from Colby Fire
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.95 MB)     JPEG (74.68 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-01-08 Earth Terra
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This image acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft is of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, a city in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia.
PIA17852:
Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Australia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-18 Earth Goldstone Deep Space Network (DSN)
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Beam Wave Guide antennas at Goldstone, known as the 'Beam Waveguide Cluster.' They are located in an area at Goldstone called 'Apollo Valley.' The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex is located in the Mojave Desert in California, USA.
PIA17793:
Dawn in the Apollo Valley
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-18 Earth Goldstone Deep Space Network (DSN)
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Goldstone's 230-foot (70-m) antenna tracks under a full moon. The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex is located in the Mojave Desert in California, USA.
PIA17792:
Goldstone 70-m Antenna
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-18 Earth Goldstone Deep Space Network (DSN)
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Goldstone's 111.5-foot (34-meter) Beam Waveguide tracks a spacecraft as it comes into view. The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex is located in the Mojave Desert in California, USA.
PIA17791:
Goldstone 34-meter Beam Waveguide
Full Resolution:     TIFF (53.78 MB)     JPEG (1.726 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-18 Earth Goldstone Deep Space Network (DSN)
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Late night in the desert: Goldstone's 230-foot (70-meter) antenna tracks spacecraft day and night. This photograph was taken on Jan. 11, 2012. The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex is located in the Mojave Desert in California, USA.
PIA17790:
Goldstone 70-Meter
Full Resolution:     TIFF (53.78 MB)     JPEG (888.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-18 Earth Terra
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This image acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft is of Mount Etna, on the Italian island of Sicily, Europe's most active volcano, where its latest series of eruptions has continued for weeks.
PIA17789:
Lava Flows from Latest Eruption of Mount Etna Spotted by NASA's Terra Spacecraft
Full Resolution:     TIFF (122.8 kB)     JPEG (16.98 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-16 Earth Terra
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Logging operations have left a striking checkerboard pattern in the landscape along the Idaho-Montana border, sandwiched between Clearwater and Bitterroot National Forests as seen in this image acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft.
PIA17788:
Idaho-Montana Logging
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.203 MB)     JPEG (583 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-10 Earth Juno
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This frame from a movie was captured by a star tracker camera on NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft. It was taken over several days as Juno approached Earth for a close flyby that would send the spacecraft onward to the giant planet.
PIA17748:
Juno's Approach to the Earth-Moon System Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-10 Earth Juno
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During its close flyby of Earth, NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft listened for a coordinated, global transmission from amateur radio operators using its radio and plasma wave science instrument, known as Waves.
PIA17744:
Juno Detects a Ham Radio "HI" from Earth Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.806 MB)     JPEG (136.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-09 Earth Airborne Snow Observatory
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Spatial distribution of snow water equivalent across the Tuolumne River Basin from April 10 to June 1, 2013 as measured by NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory.
PIA17775:
Spatial Distribution of Tuolumne River Basin Mapped by Airborne Snow Observatory Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.744 MB)     JPEG (340.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-09 Earth Airborne Snow Observatory
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NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory is two instruments combined that provides information on every patch of snow, including how deep it is and how fast it's melting. This is a frame from an animation.
PIA17774:
Measuring Snowpack from the Sky Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (692.5 kB)     JPEG (55.78 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-05 Earth Terra
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On May 30, 2013, NASA's Terra spacecraft acquired this image of the largest solar plant of its kind in the world started producing power in southern California's Mojave Desert near the Nevada border.
PIA17746:
Ivanpah Solar Energy Plant, California
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.034 MB)     JPEG (129.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-11-26 Earth ARIA
 X-band Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
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In mid-November 2013, extratropical cyclone Cleopatra brought devastating flooding to the Italian island of Sardinia as shown by the COSMO-SkyMed satellite.
PIA17738:
NASA Produces Map to Aid in Italian Flood Response
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.485 MB)     JPEG (344.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-11-22 Earth Terra
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On Nov. 14, 2013, NASA's Terra spacecraft spied a fire scar west of Wollongong, New South Wales, from the Hall Road fire in New South Wales, Australia. October 2013 brought the worst fires seen in Australia's New South Wales in many decades.
PIA17721:
Australian Wildfire, NASA Spacecraft Image Aftermath
Full Resolution:     TIFF (16.74 MB)     JPEG (1.057 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-11-20 Earth Terra
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On Nov. 8, 2013, NASA's Terra spacecraft acquired this image of Super Typhoon Haiyan as it tore across the central Philippines, leaving a trail of destruction in its path. Among the worst-hit areas is eastern Leyte island and the city of Tacloban.
PIA17700:
NASA Spacecraft Shows Before/After of Typhoon Haiyan's Devastation
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.593 MB)     JPEG (137.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-11-19 Earth Terra
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This image, acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, shows the mountains of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
PIA17696:
150th Anniversary of the Battle of Chattanooga, Tennessee
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.912 MB)     JPEG (532.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-11-15 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra satellite passed over the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica around Oct. 27, 2013, just days before iceberg B-31 broke completely free. B-31 is finally moving away from the coast, with open water between the iceberg and the glacier.
PIA17694:
Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica, MISR Multi-angle Composite
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.691 MB)     JPEG (178.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-11-13 Earth ARIA
 X-band interferometric synthetic aperture radar
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This image, is of Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded on Earth, which struck the Philippines Nov. 8, 2013.
PIA17687:
NASA-Generated Damage Map To Assist With Typhoon Haiyan Disaster Response
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.657 MB)     JPEG (212.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-11-08 Earth Aqua
OSCAT
 AIRS
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Satellite images obtained from NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua spacecraft provide a glimpse into one of the most powerful storms ever recorded on Earth, Typhoon Haiyan.
PIA17680:
Super Typhoon Haiyan
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.161 MB)     JPEG (140.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-11-08 Moon GRAIL
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Global map of crustal thickness of the moon derived from gravity data obtained by NASA's GRAIL spacecraft. The lunar near side is represented on the left hemisphere. The far side is represented in the right hemisphere.
PIA17674:
Moon Crustal Thickness
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.678 MB)     JPEG (288 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-11-05 Earth Terra
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This image, acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, shows the Namib Desert, a coastal desert in southern Africa. This portion in central Namibia consists entirely of linear and longitudinal sand dunes.
PIA17632:
Namib Desert, Namibia
Full Resolution:     TIFF (41.79 MB)     JPEG (2.037 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-10-26 Earth GRACE
 K-Band Ranging System
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This frame from NASA's Grace animation illustrates the highs and lows of combined land water storage (includes snow, soil moisture, and surface water) over the continental United States.
PIA14268:
GRACE Land Water Storage Monthly Changes over the United States, 2003 – Early 2013 Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (690.1 kB)     JPEG (464 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-10-24 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft passed over the Blue Mountains to the west and north of Sydney, A mild winter and an extremely hot September in Australia have led to an early start to the fire season.
PIA17577:
MISR Stereo Imagery of Blue Mountain Fires in New South Wales, Australia
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.417 MB)     JPEG (114.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-10-23 Earth Terra
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This image, acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, is of the ancient city of Uruk is located in present-day Iraq, on an abandoned channel of the Euphrates River.
PIA17576:
Ancient Uruk, Iraq
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.973 MB)     JPEG (306.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-10-21 Earth Juno
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On Oct. 9, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew past Earth, using our home planet's gravity to get the final boost it needed to reach Jupiter. The JunoCam instrument captured this monochrome view of Earth.
PIA17542:
Earth from Juno
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.999 MB)     JPEG (214.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-10-18 Earth MESSENGER
 MDIS - Wide Angle
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Home
PIA17540:
Home
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.05 MB)     JPEG (167.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-10-17 Earth Terra
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This image, acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, is of Canyonlands National Park, Utah, a showcase of geology in the southwest desert of the United States.
PIA17539:
Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Full Resolution:     TIFF (9.139 MB)     JPEG (910.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-10-09 Earth Juno
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This trio of NASA's Junocam views of Earth was taken during Juno's close flyby on October 9, 2013.
PIA14447:
Earth Triptych from NASA's Juno Spacecraft
Full Resolution:     TIFF (122 MB)     JPEG (1.705 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-09-26 Earth Terra
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This image, acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, shows Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, with a population of about 2.5 million inhabitants for the greater metropolitan area.
PIA17513:
Kathmandu, Nepal
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.441 MB)     JPEG (572.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-09-24 Earth Terra
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This image, acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, shows the epicenter of a magnitude 7.7 earthquake which struck south-central Pakistan on Sept. 24, 2013, in Pakistan's Makran fold belt.
PIA17505:
Region Hit by Large Pakistan Quake as Shown by NASA Spacecraft
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.803 MB)     JPEG (654.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-09-24 Earth Terra
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This image, acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, shows the Cordoba province of northern Argentina, struck by wildfires caused by high temperatures and strong winds.
PIA17504:
NASA Spacecraft Images Destructive Argentine Wildfire
Full Resolution:     TIFF (19.76 MB)     JPEG (1.663 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-09-12 Earth Terra
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This image, acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, shows the Rim Fire in and around Yosemite National Park in California after it was 80 percent contained.
PIA15639:
NASA Spacecraft Captures New Image of Third-Largest Wildfire in California History
Full Resolution:     TIFF (52.96 MB)     JPEG (1.606 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-09-11 Earth Terra
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In the desert of southern Kuwait, three oil fields spread out across the empty landscape as seen by NASA's Terra spacecraft.
PIA17459:
Kuwait Oil Fields
Full Resolution:     TIFF (31.98 MB)     JPEG (1.46 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-09-09 Earth OSTM/Jason-2
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New data from NASA's Jason-2 satellite show near-normal sea surface heights in the equatorial Pacific Ocean persisting for a 16th straight month.
PIA17454:
'La Nada' Climate Pattern Lingers in the Pacific
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.169 MB)     JPEG (108.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-08-29 Earth Landsat
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This image acquired by NASA's Landsat 8 satellite shows the Zambezi (also Zambeze), the fourth largest river in Africa, and the largest east-flowing waterway.
PIA18155:
Zambezi River Delta
Full Resolution:     TIFF (9.507 MB)     JPEG (347.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-08-27 Earth Aqua
 AIRS
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This frame from a movie was produced with data from NASA's Aqua spacecraft showing the spread of carbon monoxide pollution across North America from fires in the Western U.S., including the Beaver Creek Fire in Idaho and the Rim Fire in California.
PIA17433:
NASA's AIRS Instrument Sees Spread of Pollution from Western Wildfires Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.737 MB)     JPEG (60.04 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-08-27 Earth Terra
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This visible image of California's Rim Fire was acquired Aug. 23, 2013 by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft, showing extensive, brownish smoke.
PIA17429:
NASA's Terra Spacecraft Eyes Smoke Plumes from Massive Rim Fire Near Yosemite
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.856 MB)     JPEG (320.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-08-27 Earth Terra
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This image from the MISR instrument onboard NASA's Terra spacecraft shows a 121-by-165-mile (194-by-266 kilometer) portion of California's Rim fire where the smoke is the thickest.
PIA17428:
NASA's Terra Spacecraft Measures Height of California Rim Fire Smoke Plumes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-08-27 Earth Aqua
 AIRS
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The plume of carbon monoxide pollution from the Rim Fire burning in and near Yosemite National Park, Calif., shows a three-day running average of daily measurements from NASA's Aqua spacecraft.
PIA17427:
NASA's Aqua Spacecraft Images Pollution from California's Rim Fire
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.583 MB)     JPEG (101.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-08-23 Earth Terra
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This image, acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, is of the CERN Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator laying beneath the French-Swiss border northwest of Geneva (yellow circle).
PIA17434:
CERN Collider, France-Switzerland
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.922 MB)     JPEG (325.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-08-22 Earth CloudSat
 Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR)
MODIS
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NASA's CloudSat satellite flew over Typhoon Utor in the West Pacific on Aug. 11, 2013 at 0518 UTC, passing within about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) from the center of the storm, and revealing the structure of the storm's eye and eyewall.
PIA17413:
NASA's CloudSat Eyes Powerful Typhoon Utor
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-08-16 Earth Terra
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Radially symmetrical, star dunes dominate the Grand Erg Oriental of the Algerian Sahara, as depicted in this image acquired October 27, 2012 acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft.
PIA17411:
Star Dunes, Algeria
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-07-22 Earth Cassini-Huygens
 ISS - Wide Angle
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The cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this rare look at Earth and its moon from Saturn orbit on July 19, 2013. The image has been magnified five times.
PIA17170:
One Special Day in the Life of Planet Earth -- Close-Up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-07-22 Earth Cassini-Huygens
 Imaging Science Subsystem
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The cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this rare look at Earth and its moon from Saturn orbit on July 19, 2013.
PIA14949:
One Special Day in the Life of Planet Earth
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.906 MB)     JPEG (16.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-07-22 Earth MESSENGER
 MDIS - Wide Angle
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Looking Back at Us
PIA17388:
Looking Back at Us
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-07-20 Earth Terra
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NASA's MISR instrument onbard NASA's Terra spacecraft captured a stereo view of Mountain Fire near Idyllwild, Calif. in July, 2013.
PIA17384:
NASA's MISR Instrument Captures Stereo View of Mountain Fire Near Idyllwild, Calif.
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-07-20 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft passed over the Mountain Fire near Idyllwild, Calif., on Jul. 17, 2013. Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean can been seen to the left and the Salton Sea is the dark feature in the right center of the image.
PIA17383:
NASA's MISR Instrument Captures View of Mountain Fire Near Idyllwild, Calif.
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.048 MB)     JPEG (104 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-07-15 Earth Terra
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This image acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Sulaiman fold-thrust belt in northwestern Pakistan, a linear or arcuate belt in which compression has produced a combination of thrust faults and folds.
PIA17391:
Sulaiman Fold Belt, Pakistan
Full Resolution:     TIFF (29.73 MB)     JPEG (1.861 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-07-09 Earth Terra
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This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the town of Kirkenes in northernmost Norway, with its 3400 inhabitants, as they prepare for an expected boom as a shipping hub, as global warming has led to the opening up of the Northern Sea Route.
PIA17312:
Kirkenes, Norway
Full Resolution:     TIFF (8.127 MB)     JPEG (659.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-07-08 Earth CSIRO Parkes Observatory
 Parks Telescope
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This image shows the Parkes telescope in Australia, part of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. Researchers used the telescope to detect the first population of radio bursts known to originate from beyond our galaxy.
PIA17248:
Parkes Telescope
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-07-08 Earth Terra
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This image, acquired by NASA's Terra satellite on July 6, 2013, shows heavy rains, which began in mid-June, resulting in major flooding along the Parana River in Argentina.
PIA17376:
Flooding Along Parana River
Full Resolution:     TIFF (20.29 MB)     JPEG (1.439 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-07-02 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft passed over the Silver Fire in western New Mexico on June 7, 2013. It has since consumed more than 137,000 acres of timber in a rugged area of the Gila National Forest that has not seen large fires for nearly a century.
PIA17294:
NASA Spacecraft Images New Mexico Wildfire
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-06-27 Earth Seasat
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Seasat, built and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was launched thirty-five years ago, on June 27, 1978. It was the first satellite designed for remote sensing of the Earth's oceans using many ground-breaking technologies.
PIA15816:
Seasat Celebrates Landmark in Remote-Sensing History Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-06-25 Earth Terra
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This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows North Stradbroke Island, 30 km southeast of Brisbane, Australia, one of the largest sand islands in the world.
PIA17112:
North Stradbroke Island, Australia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-06-21 Earth Terra
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This image, acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, is of the Carstens, Calif. wildfire which continues to burn in the foothills west of Yosemite National Park. Vegetation is displayed in green and burned and bare areas are dark to light gray.
PIA17292:
NASA Spacecraft Images Wildfire Near Yosemite National Park
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-06-14 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra satellite passed over the Silver Fire in New Mexico June 12, 2013. By combining information from different MISR cameras, scientists have produced a 3D image of the smoke plume associated with the Silver Fire.
PIA17287:
Pyrocumulus Clouds Tower Over Silver Fire in New Mexico
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-06-13 Earth Aqua
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Rates of basal melt of Antarctic ice shelves (melting of the shelves from underneath) overlaid on a 2009 mosaic of Antarctica created from data from NASA's Terra and Aqua spacecraft.
PIA17284:
Rates of Basal Melt of Antarctic Ice Shelves
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-06-13 Earth 1984x1488x3
This photo shows the ice front of the ice shelf in front of Pine Island Glacier, a major glacier system of West Antarctica.
PIA17283:
Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-06-13 Earth 3264x2448x3
This photo, aken onboard a National Science Foundation/NASA chartered Twin Otter aircraft, shows the ice front of Dibble Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, a significant melt water producer from the Wilkes Land region, East Antarctica.
PIA17282:
Dibble Ice Shelf
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-06-13 Earth 3264x2448x3
This photo, taken onboard the Chilean Navy P3 aircraft, shows the ice front of Venable Ice Shelf, West Antarctica, in October 2008. It is an example of a small-size ice shelf that is a large melt water producer.
PIA17281:
Ice Front at Venable Ice Shelf
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-06-13 Earth GRACE
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Groundwater storage trends around the United States as measured by the NASA/German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites between 2003 and 2012.
PIA16840:
GRACE Measures Groundwater Changes Across the U.S.
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-06-07 Earth Earth Observing-1 (EO-1)
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NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) spacecraft observed Copahue volcano, a 2965 meter high volcano on the Chile-Argentina border, on Jun. 4, 2013. Having recently displayed signs of unrest, the volcano is under close scrutiny by local volcanologists.
PIA17234:
NASA's Earth Observing-1 Keeps Watchful Eye on South American Volcano Copahue
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-06-05 Earth Terra
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This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the town of Kourou, which sits at the mouth of the Kourou River, French Guiana.
PIA17099:
Kouru, French Guiana
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-06-05 Earth Terra
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The Newcastle-Moore EF-5 tornado ripped through central Oklahoma on May 20, 2013, killing 24 people and leaving behind more than $2 billion in damage. This image was acquired NASA's Terra spacecraft on June 2, 2013.
PIA16488:
NASA Spacecraft Captures Swath of Destruction from Deadly Oklahoma Tornado
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-23 Earth Jason-3
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Artist's concept of U.S.-European Jason-3 Ocean Altimetry Satellite over the Amazon
PIA14441:
Artist's Concept of U.S.-European Jason-3 Ocean Altimetry Satellite over the Amazon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-23 Earth Jason-3
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Artist's concept of U.S.-European Jason-3 Ocean Altimetry Satellite over France.
PIA14440:
Artist's Concept of U.S.-European Jason-3 Ocean Altimetry Satellite over France
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-23 Earth Jason-3
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Artist's concept of the U.S.-European Jason-3 spacecraft over the California coast. Jason-3 will precisely measure the height of the ocean surface, allowing scientists to monitor ocean circulation and sea level.
PIA14439:
Artist's Concept of U.S.-European Jason-3 Ocean Altimetry Satellite over California
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-22 Earth Aqua
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This map created with data from the AIRS on NASA's Aqua satellite shows the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's mid-troposphere, located roughly between 3 to 6 miles (5 to 9 kilometers) in altitude.
PIA14437:
Carbon Dioxide in Earth's Mid-Troposphere, April 2013 Monthly Average
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-22 Earth Aqua
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This plot shows the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's mid-troposphere at various latitudes as measured by NASA's Aqua satellite. The colored lines represent different latitude bands that circle Earth, called 'zones'.
PIA14436:
Zonally Averaged Carbon Dioxide Concentration from Earth's Mid-Troposphere at Different Latitudes, 2002 to 2013
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-22 Earth Aqua
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This graph made with data from the AIRS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite shows the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's mid-troposphere, located roughly between 3 to 6 miles (5 to 9 kilometers) in altitude.
PIA14435:
Concentration of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide from Earth's Mid-Troposphere, 2002 to 2013
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-21 Earth Terra
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Alaska's Pavlof volcano, located along Alaska's Aleutian Peninsula, sent a low-level ash plume north-northeast about 37.3 miles (60 kilometers) on May 19, 2013, when this image was acquired NASA's Terra spacecraft.
PIA16995:
Prolific Alaska Volcano Spews Ash in New Eruption
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-21 Earth Terra
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This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Moscow, the capital city of Russia, the northernmost megacity in the world, the most populous in Europe, and with a population of over 11,000,000, the 6th largest city proper in the world.
PIA16988:
Moscow, Russia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-13 Earth Aqua
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The quick dry-out of vegetation in Southern California this year is depicted in this pair of images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor on NASA's Aqua spacecraft.
PIA17053:
MODIS Satellite See Double Jeopardy for Socal Fire Season
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-13 Earth Aqua
OSCAT
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Extensive and persistent rains between Jan. 24 and Jan. 27, 2013, significantly increased soil moisture and enhanced vegetation growth in Southern California based on data from NASA's Aqua spacecraft and ISRO's Oceansat-2 satellite.
PIA17052:
Satellites See Double Jeopardy for Socal Fire Season
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-02 Earth Airborne Snow Observatory
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NASA Airborne Snow Observatory measurements of snow water equivalent (top image) and snow albedo, or reflectivity (bottom image) for the Tuolumne River Basin in California's Sierra Nevada on April 21, 2013.
PIA17773:
Snow Water Equivalent for Tuolumne River Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-02 Earth Airborne Snow Observatory
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A natural color image of Mt. Lyell, the highest point in the Tuolumne River Basin (top image) is compared with a three-dimensional color composite image of Mt. Lyell from NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory depicting snow depth (bottom image).
PIA17772:
Snow Depth Depicted on Mt. Lyell by NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-02 Earth Airborne Snow Observatory
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Mt. Dana and Dana Plateau in the Tuolumne River Basin within Yosemite National Park, Calif., as seen out the window of a Twin Otter aircraft carrying NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory on April 3, 2013.
PIA17771:
Tuolumne River Basin seen by NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-02 Earth Terra
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This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows Macquarie Island which lies halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica, and is part of Tasmania.
PIA16980:
Macquarie Island, Australia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-22 Earth Terra
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This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft highlights the epicenter of a powerful magnitude 6.6 earthquake which struck Sichuan Province in southwest China on April 20, 2013. Vegetation is displayed in red; clouds and snow are in white.
PIA16994:
NASA Spacecraft Shows Location of China Quake
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-16 Earth Terra
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This image of the river-delineated border between western Brazil's Acre province, and northwestern Bolivia's Pando Department, demarcates a remarkable difference in land use and development practices as seen by NASA's Terra spacecraft.
PIA16991:
Brazil-Bolivia Border
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-10 Earth Terra
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On April 9, 2013 at 11:52 GMT, this image acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, shows the location of a magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit southwestern Iran's Bushehr province near the town of Kaki.
PIA16946:
NASA Spacecraft Image Shows Location of Iranian Earthquake
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-05 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft captured this view of severe flooding in La Plata, Argentina, on April 4, 2013. Torrential rains and record flash flooding has killed more than 50 and left thousands homeless, according to news reports.
PIA16945:
NASA Spacecraft Eyes Severe Flooding in Argentina
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-04 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft captured Kuwait's Failaka Island, located 50 km southeast of the spot where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers empty into the Persian Gulf.
PIA16944:
Failaka Island, Kuwait
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-03 Earth UAVSAR
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This false-color image of Colombia's Galeras Volcano, was acquired by UAVSAR on March 13, 2013. A highly active volcano, Galeras features a breached caldera and an active cone that produces numerous small to moderate explosive eruptions.
PIA16943:
UAVSAR Acquires False-Color Image of Galeras Volcano, Colombia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-03 Earth UAVSAR
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On March 17, 2013, NASA's Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) acquired synthetic aperture radar data over the Napo River in Ecuador and Peru.
PIA16942:
NASA Sends Unmanned Aircraft To Study Volcanoes and Wetlands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-25 Earth Terra
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NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge (or Pearl Bridge), the longest central span of any suspension bridge in the world, at 1991 meters, connecting the city of Kobe, Japan with Iwaja on Awaji Island by crossing the busy Akashi Strait.
PIA16905:
Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, Japan
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