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The following are pages from NASA's Earth Observatory site for photographs submitted by our Earth Sciences and Image Analysis group.

 
Earth Observatory Featured Postings
Title Date posted Photo ID
Cities at Night: The View from Space 2008/04/22 ISS016-E-27034
ISS007-E-16747
ISS007-E-16525
ISS016-E-27162
ISS016-E-27168
ISS016-E-26150
ISS016-E-27586
ISS006-E-44123
ISS016-E-16189
The Art of Science 2005/10/24 ISS010-E-10124
ISS010-E-14618
ISS010-E-15457
ISS010-E-18196
ISS010-E-21487
ISS010-E-21965
Auroras Dancing in the Night 2004/01/02 ISS006-E-47517
ISS006-E-21591
ISS006-E-48424
ISS006-E-51691
ISS006-E-28961
Watching the World Go By 2003/10/22 ISS007-E-9227
Astronauts Photograph Mt. Pinatubo 2001/06/14
Earth Observatory Image Postings
Title Date posted Geographic Name Photo ID
Burren Plateau, County Clare, Ireland 2008/05/04 IRELAND ISS016-E-30080
Cerro Culiacan, Mexico 2008/04/27 MEXICO ISS016-E-31086
Tokyo at Night 2008/04/21 JAPAN ISS016-E-27586
Cananea Copper Mine, Sonora, Mexico 2008/04/20 MEXICO ISS016-E-31056
Harrat Khaybar Volcanic Field 2008/04/13 SAUDI ARABIA ISS016-E-34524
Semien Mountains, Ethiopia 2008/04/06 ETHIOPIA ISS016-E-10784
Dendi Caldera, Ethiopia 2008/03/30 ETHIOPIA ISS016-E-19239
Al Wadj Bank, Saudi Arabia 2008/03/23 SAUDI ARABIA ISS016-E-19394
Lake Fucine, Italy 2008/03/16 ITALY ISS016-E-30337
Cumulonimbus Cloud over Africa 2008/03/10 AFRICA ISS016-E-27426
Perth Amboy, New Jersey 2008/03/03 USA-NEW JERSEY ISS016-E-18493
Mega-iceberg A53a, South Atlantic 2008/02/24 ATLANTIC OCEAN ISS016-E-23196
ISS016-E-23197
Paris, France 2008/02/17 FRANCE ISS016-E-21564
Perth, Australia 2008/02/10 AUSTRALIA-WA ISS016-E-22772
Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico 2008/02/03 PUERTO RICO ISS016-E-18385
Port of Suez, Egypt 2008/01/27 EGYPT ISS016-E-19375
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado 2008/01/20 USA-COLORADO ISS016-E-6986
Beirut Metropolitan Area, Lebanon 2008/01/13 LEBANON ISS016-E-8436
Sao Simao Reservoir, Brazil: 300,000th ISS image of the Earth 2008/01/06 BRAZIL ISS016-E-11999
Cosiguina Volcano, Nicaragua 2007/12/30 NICARAGUA ISS016-E-10894
Tyndall Glacier, Chile 2007/12/23 CHILE ISS016-E-12047
Dust Plumes, Baja California, Mexico 2007/12/16 MEXICO ISS016-E-5526
Wellington, New Zealand 2007/12/09 NEW ZEALAND-NI ISS016-E-5121
Marsh Island, Louisiana 2007/12/02 USA-LOUISIANA ISS015-E-7725
Isla Blanquilla, Venezuela 2007/11/25 VENEZUELA ISS015-E-7771
Mazatlan, Mexico 2007/11/18 MEXICO ISS015-E-7934
Isla San Lorenzo and Isla Las Animas, Gulf of California 2007/11/11 MEXICO ISS015-E-7928
Dust Storm, Aral Sea, Kazakhstan 2007/11/04 KAZAKHSTAN ISS015-E-7874
Saskatchewan River Delta, Manitoba, Canada 2007/10/28 CANADA-M ISS015-E-7649
Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah 2007/10/21 USA-UTAH ISS015-E-29867
Fires, East Falkland Island, South Atlantic 2007/10/14 FALKLAND ISLANDS ISS015-E-30526
North and South Platte Rivers, Nebraska 2007/10/07 USA-NEBRASKA ISS015-E-27232
Oblique View of Dinosaur National Monument 2007/09/30 USA-COLORADO ISS015-E-28001
ISS015-E-28002
ISS015-E-28003
ISS015-E-28004
International Space Station from Space Shuttle Endeavour 2007/09/23 GREECE STS118-E-9469
Simushir Island, Kuril Archipelago 2007/09/16 RUSSIAN FEDERATION ISS015-E-26171
Nardo Ring, Italy 2007/09/09 ITALY ISS014-E-7578
Shiveluch Volcano, Russia's Far East 2007/09/02 RUSSIAN FEDERATION ISS015-E-16913
Ceuta, Northern Africa 2007/08/26 SPAIN ISS015-E-18808
Smoke Plumes over Idaho and Montana 2007/08/19 USA-MONTANA ISS015-E-22274
ISS015-E-22276
Polar Mesospheric Clouds 2007/08/12 CLOUDS STS117-E-6998
Bechar Basin, Algeria 2007/08/05 ALGERIA ISS015-E-15323
Brooklyn, New York Waterfront 2007/07/29 USA-NEW YORK ISS015-E-5483
Upheaval Dome, Utah 2007/07/22 USA-UTAH ISS015-E-5983
Algae in Great Salt Lake 2007/07/15 USA-UTAH ISS015-E-5815
Maracaibo City and Oil Slick, Venezuela 2007/07/08 VENEZUELA ISS014-E-14618
Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Maryland 2007/07/01 USA-MARYLAND ISS015-E-5481
Grey Glacier, Chile 2007/06/24 CHILE ISS015-E-10704
Iceberg A22A, South Atlantic Ocean 2007/06/17 ATLANTIC OCEAN ISS015-E-10125
ISS015-E-10118
Southern Everglades National Park, Florida 2007/06/10 USA-FLORIDA ISS015-E-8920
Den Helder, Netherlands 2007/06/03 NETHERLANDS ISS015-E-5977
Concepcion Volcano, Nicaragua 2007/05/29 NICARAGUA ISS015-E-7543
Monteregian Hills, Quebec, Canada 2007/05/27 CANADA-Q ISS014-E-19807
Springtime Comes to the Niagara River 2007/05/20 USA-NEW YORK ISS014-E-17999
ISS015-E-5624
Salt Ponds, Botswana 2007/05/13 BOTSWANA ISS014-E-15732
November 2006 Smog Event, U.S. Northeast 2007/05/06 USA-NEW YORK, USA-FLORIDA ISS014-E-7738
STS031-151-155
Kwangju, South Korea 2007/04/29 SOUTH KOREA ISS014-E-15258
Venice, Italy 2007/04/22 ITALY ISS014-E-17346
Isles of Scilly, UK 2007/04/17 UK-ENGLAND ISS014-E-16597
Plume at Shiveluch Volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia 2007/04/08 RUSSIAN FEDERATION ISS014-E-17165
Plume at Mount Bagana, Bouganville Island 2007/04/07 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ISS014-E-18844
Montevideo, Uruguay 2007/04/01 URUGUAY ISS014-E-13598
Guanaja Island, Honduras 2007/03/25 HONDURAS ISS014-E-15767
Caravelas Strandplain, Bahia Province, Brazil 2007/03/18 BRAZIL ISS014-E-10499
Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina 2007/03/11 ARGENTINA ISS014-E-5615
Flooding in Somalia 2007/03/04 SOMALIA ISS014-E-13848
ISS012-E-23442
Montreal 2007/02/25 CANADA-Q ISS014-E-12652
Barcelona, Spain 2007/02/18 SPAIN ISS014-E-10547
Erg Oriental, Algeria 2007/02/11 ALGERIA ISS013-E-75141
Mumbai, India 2007/02/04 INDIA ISS014-E-8741
ISS014-E-8742
ISS014-E-8744
Pagan Island, Northern Mariana Islands 2007/01/28 NORTHERN MARIANA IS. ISS014-E-11872
The East Pacific Rise from Near and Far 2007/01/23 MEXICO ISS006-E-51456
Gallipoli and Dardanelles Strait, Turkey 2007/01/21 TURKEY ISS014-E-8138
New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain 2007/01/14 USA-LOUISIANA ISS014-E-8179
Gibraltar Bay, Western Mediterranean Sea 2007/01/07 SPAIN ISS014-E-6812
Dyess Air Force Base: Abilene, Texas 2006/12/31 USA-TEXAS ISS014-E-7480
Geneva, Switzerland 2006/12/24 SWITZERLAND ISS014-E-7084
Lake Morari, Tibet 2006/12/17 INDIA ISS013-E-76262
Bernese Alps, Switzerland 2006/12/10 SWITZERLAND ISS013-E-77377
Rio Negro, Amazonia, Brazil 2006/12/03 BRAZIL ISS013-E-74843
Galveston, Texas 2006/11/26 USA-TEXAS ISS014-E-7258
Currituck Sound, North Carolina, USA 2006/11/19 USA-NORTH CAROLINA ISS014-E-6971
Berkeley Pit: Butte, Montana 2006/11/12 USA-MONTANA ISS013-E-63766
Haze in the Po River Valley, Italy 2006/11/05 ITALY ISS013-E-78295
Aquaculture in the Nile Delta 2006/10/29 EGYPT ISS013-E-76441
Volga River Delta 2006/10/22 RUSSIAN FEDERATION ISS013-E-77351
Sand Dunes in Har Nuur (Black Lake), Western Mongolia 2006/10/15 MONGOLIA ISS013-E-78506
Munich International Airport, Germany 2006/10/08 GERMANY ISS013-E-18319
Wave Patterns Near Bajo Nuevo Reef, Caribbean Sea 2006/10/01 CARIBBEAN SEA ISS013-E-71473
ISS013-E-71468
Day Fire, Southern California 2006/09/24 USA-CALIFORNIA ISS013-E-81687
Crater Lake, Oregon 2006/09/17 USA-OREGON ISS013-E-54243
Dune Types in the Issaouane Erg, Eastern Algeria 2006/09/10 ALGERIA ISS013-E-65526
Golden Gate, San Francisco, California 2006/09/03 USA-CALIFORNIA ISS013-E-65111
250,000 Earth Photographs from the International Space Station 2006/08/27 NEW ZEALAND-SI ISS013-E-67242
Ash Cloud from Mount Ubinas, Peru 2006/08/20 PERU ISS013-E-66488
Mount Etna, Sicily 2006/08/13 SICILY ISS013-E-62714
Calcite Quarry, Michigan 2006/08/06 USA-MICHIGAN ISS013-E-14843
Ship Traffic on the Suez Canal, Egypt 2006/07/30 EGYPT ISS013-E-44847
Yates Oilfield, West Texas 2006/07/23 USA-TEXAS ISS013-E-26488
Tenerife Island, Spain 2006/07/16 SPAIN ISS013-E-23272
Nukuoro Atoll, Federated States of Micronesia 2006/07/09 CAROLINE ISLANDS ISS013-E-28610
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, TX 2006/07/02 USA-TEXAS ISS013-E-19323
Site of Carthage, Tunisia 2006/06/25 TUNISIA ISS013-E-34753
Aves Island 2006/06/18 CARIBBEAN SEA ISS013-E-27590
Sunglint Features, Lake Erie, United States 2006/06/11 USA-OHIO ISS013-E-27872
Central Phoenix Metro Area, Arizona 2006/06/04 USA-ARIZONA ISS013-E-17394
Wave Sets and Tidal Currents, Gulf of California 2006/05/28 MEXICO ISS013-E-16599
Activity at Cleveland Volcano, Aleutian Islands, Alaska 2006/05/23 USA-ALASKA ISS013-E-24184
Washington, D.C. 2006/05/21 USA-DC ISS013-E-13549
Dust and Smog in Northeast China 2006/05/14 CHINA ISS012-E-21250
Viedma Glacier, Argentina 2006/05/07 ARGENTINA ISS013-E-6947
Ekuma River and Etosha Pan, Namibia 2006/04/30 NAMIBIA ISS012-E-23057
Lake Poopó Water Levels 2006/04/23 BOLIVIA ISS012-E-6468
Salt Dome in the Zagros Mountains, Iran 2006/04/16 IRAN ISS012-E-18774
Lake Natron, Tanzania 2006/04/09 TANZANIA ISS012-E-20456
Newport, Rhode Island 2006/04/02 US-RI ISS012-E-19051
Total Solar Eclipse of March 29, 2006 2006/03/29 PAN-SOLAR ECLIPSE SHADOW, ISS ISS012-E-21351
Winter in the Dasht-e-Lut Desert, Eastern Iran 2006/03/26 IRAN ISS012-E-18779
Savannah River Site, South Carolina 2006/03/19 USA-SOUTH CAROLINA ISS012-E-16633
Belle Isle, Newfoundland, Canada 2006/03/12 CANADA-N ISS012-E-15918
Apataki Atoll 2006/03/05 TUAMOTU ISLANDS
Lake Puma Yumco, Tibet, China 2006/02/26 CHINA ISS012-E-14618
Sandusky, Ohio 2006/02/19 USA-OHIO ISS012-E-15050
Turin, Italy 2006/02/12 ITALY ISS012-E-15598
Confluence of Ohio and Mississippi Rivers at Cairo, IL 2006/02/05 USA-ILLINOIS ISS012-E-15035
Sierra Nevada, Spain 2006/01/29 SPAIN ISS012-E-11144
Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela 2006/01/22 VENEZUELA ISS012-E-11779
Forest Fire, Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge, LA 2006/01/15 USA-LOUISIANA ISS012-E-13692
Decreasing Water Levels in Egypt’s Toshka Lakes 2006/01/08 EGYPT ISS012-E-11639
Lake Nasser and the New Valley 2006/01/01 EGYPT ISS012-E-11654
Houston Ship Channel, Texas 2005/12/25 USA-TEXAS ISS012-E-9567
Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico 2005/12/18 MEXICO ISS012-E-7151
Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia 2005/12/11 BOLIVIA ISS012-E-6456
Plankton Plume, North Island, New Zealand 2005/12/04 NEW ZEALAND-NI ISS012-E-5727
St. Petersburg and the Gulf of Finland 2005/11/27 FINLAND ISS011-E-12401
Algodones Dunefield, California 2005/11/20 USA-CALIFORNIA ISS011-E-11543
Uralsk, Kazakhstan 2005/11/13 KAZAKHSTAN ISS011-E-6717
Rosario, Argentina 2005/11/06 ARGENTINA ISS011-E-6422
Navajo Mountain, Utah 2005/10/30 USA-UTAH ISS012-E-5172
Fall Colors in the Wasatch Range, Utah 2005/10/23 USA-UTAH ISS011-E-13889
South Georgia Island 2005/10/16 SOUTH GEORGIA IS. ISS011-E-12148
North Antelope Rochelle Coal Mine, Wyoming 2005/10/09 USA-WYOMING ISS011-E-12863
Dune Patterns, Namib Desert, Namibia 2005/10/02 NAMIBIA ISS011-E-9756
Mt. Rainier, Washington 2005/09/25 USA-WASHINGTON ISS011-E-11428
Hurricane Damage in Biloxi, Mississippi 2005/09/18 USA-MISSISSIPPI ISS011-E-12547
Irkutsk, Siberia, Russian Federation 2005/09/11 RUSSIAN FEDERATION ISS011-E-9913
Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming 2005/09/04 USA-WYOMING ISS011-E-10575
Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts 2005/08/28 USA-MASSACHUSETTS ISS011-E-10856
Forest Fire Smoke Surrounding Mt. McKinley 2005/08/21 USA-ALASKA ISS011-E-11805
Retreating Aral Sea Coastlines 2005/08/14 KAZAKHSTAN ISS011-E-7865
Palm Island Resort, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2005/08/07 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES ISS010-E-22273
Grasberg Mine, Indonesia 2005/07/31 INDONESIA ISS011-E-9620
Dallas, Texas 2005/07/24 USA-TEXAS ISS010-E-24596
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 2005/07/17 SAUDI ARABIA ISS010-E-20261
Searles Lake, California 2005/07/10 CALIFORNIA ISS011-E-9680
Las Cruces, New Mexico 2005/07/03 NEW MEXICO ISS011-E-8410
Sept-iles, Gulf of St Lawrence, Quebec, Canada 2005/06/26 CANADA-Q ISS011-E-7471
Port of Rotterdam, Netherlands 2005/06/19 NETHERLANDS ISS011-E-7380
Fire Scars in Australia's Simpson Desert 2005/06/12 AUSTRALIA ISS005-E-21295
Ural River Delta, Kazakhstan 2005/06/05 KAZAKHSTAN ISS009-E-18679
Tarbela Dam, Pakistan 2005/05/31 PAKISTAN ISS005-E-12804
Khartoum, Sudan 2005/05/22 SUDAN ISS010-E-23451
Baitoushan Volcano, China and North Korea 2005/05/15 CHINA ISS006-E-43366
London, United Kingdom 2005/05/08 UK-ENGLAND ISS010-E-22495
Jericho, West Bank 2005/05/01 ISRAEL ISS005-E-9451
Spring Thaw, Straits of Mackinac 2005/04/24 USA-MICHIGAN ISS010-E-23748
Lima Metropolitan Area, Peru 2005/04/17 PERU ISS010-E-20111
Rollout of Shuttle Discovery, Kennedy Space Center 2005/04/10 USA-FLORIDA ISS010-E-23035
Mount Olympus, Greece 2005/04/03 GREECE ISS010-E-8224
Popocatepetl and Iztaccíhuatl Volcanoes, Mexico 2005/03/27 MEXICO ISS006-E-28546
Arid Coast of Peru 2005/03/20 PERU ISS006-E-38306
Fringing Coral Reef, Red Sea 2005/03/13 SUDAN ISS009-E-23808
Coastal Change, Amazon River Mouth 2005/03/06 BRAZIL ISS010-E-13029
Shenyang, China 2005/02/27 CHINA ISS010-E-13807
Mt. Damavand, Iran 2005/02/20 IRAN ISS010-E-13393
Solimões-Negro River Confluence at Manaus, Amazonia 2005/02/13 BRAZIL ISS009-E-15488
Issaouane Erg, Algeria 2005/02/06 ALGERIA ISS010-E-13539
Iberá Swamp Topography, NE Argentina 2005/01/30 ARGENTINA ISS010-E-5072
Tsunami Damage, Northwestern Sumatra (Indonesia) 2005/01/23 INDONESIA-S ISS010-E-13088
Salalah, Sultanate of Oman 2005/01/16 OMAN ISS010-E-7210
Seoul, South Korea 2005/01/09 SOUTH KOREA ISS010-E-12103
Howland Island, Pacific Ocean 2005/01/02 HOWLAND ISLAND ISS010-E-9287
Well-head flare, Calanscio Sand Sea, Libya 2004/12/26 LIBYA ISS005-E-11189
New York's Finger Lakes 2004/12/19 USA-NEW YORK ISS010-E-9366
Lake Sambhar, India 2004/12/12 INDIA ISS010-E-8524
Moreno Glacier, Argentina 2004/12/05 ARGENTINA ISS010-E-5803
Shark Bay, Australia 2004/11/29 AUSTRALIA-WA ISS010-E-6681
Lake Valencia, Venezuela 2004/11/21 VENEZUELA ISS010-E-5194
Green Circles—Al Khufrah Oasis, Libya 2004/11/14 LIBYA ISS010-E-5266
Corrientes, Argentina, and the Parana River 2004/11/07 ARGENTINA