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The Bushveld Igneous Complex BIC is a large layered igneous intrusion within the earth crust, exposed at the edge of...
Agricultural patterns are distinctly visible in this near-vertical false color infrared photography taken in...
This color image of the Earth was obtained by NASA Galileo spacecraft in Dec. 1990, when the spacecraft was about...
iss071e580719 (Aug. 30, 2024) -- The coastline of South Africa, with Cape Town and the False Bay situated at the top...
This stereoscopic shaded relief image from NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission shows Africa topography. Also shown...
Africa is front and center in this image of Earth taken by a NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory...
AS04-01-410 (9 Nov. 1967) --- Coastal Brazil, Atlantic Ocean, West Africa, Sahara, Antarctica, looking west, as...
The third largest river in Africa, the Niger, forms an inland delta in central Mali. This image is from NASA Terra...
NASA image acquired December 26, 2011 Off the coast of South Africa, near where the South Atlantic meets the...
Solar eclipse over western Africa (afternoon overpass) at 14:45 UTC. Satellite: Aqua A rare “hybrid” solar eclipse...
Solar eclipse over western Africa (morning overpass) at 11:45 UTC. Satellite: Terra A rare “hybrid” solar eclipse...
AS04-01-580 (9 Nov. 1967) --- Earth as viewed from 10,000 miles. In 1969, the Apollo 4 (Spacecraft 017/Saturn 501)...
Cape Town and the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, appear on the left west of this anaglyph from NASA Shuttle Radar...
This image of Africa Nabro volcano in Eritrea was acquired by NASA Terra spacecraft on July 6, 2011. Ash plumes sent...
Nabro volcano, Eritrea, in the Horn of Africa, began erupting June 12, 2011, the first-ever recorded eruption of...
Elevation data at the highest possible resolution from NASA SRTM mission in February 2000 are being released for the...
iss072e862232 (March 28, 2025) --- This portion of the Orange River, South Africa's longest river, east of Namibia's...
NASA image acquired April 18 - October 23, 2012 This new image of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East at night is a...
During an education outreach event in Gabon, Africa, students and educators, look at the German Aerospace Center...
The arculate fronts of these apparently converging internal waves off the northeast coast of Somalia (11.5N, 51.5E)...
S65-63130 (16 Dec. 1965) --- Ras Hafum, coast of Somali Republic, northeast Africa, as seen from the Gemini-6...
Cape Town and the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, appear in the foreground of this perspective view generated from...
This image of Western Cape, South Africa was acquired by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer MISR instrument...
STS106-713-057 (19 September 2000) --- One of the STS-106 crew members on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis used a...