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On August 23, 2013, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this...
At first glance a dry lake bed in the southern California desert seems like the last place to prepare to study ice....
STS001-12-305 (12-14 April 1981) --- California, San Francisco Bay photographed by a crew member on the space...
This is a radar image of Los Angeles, California, taken on October 2, 1994.
The winter of 2013 was among the driest on record for California, setting the stage for an active fire season. By...
The winter of 2013 was among the driest on record for California, setting the stage for an active fire season. By...
Space shuttle Endeavour and its host NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft land at Edwards Air Force Base in California....
Space shuttle Endeavour and its host NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft fly over Disneyland in 2012 on its way to the...
A prototype of the Lander Vision System for NASA Mars 2020 mission was tested in this Dec. 9, 2014, flight of a...
iss071e014306 (April 20, 2024) -- The Gulf of California and Baja California were photographed by NASA astronaut...
The October 2007 wildfires, including the Witch Wildland fire, plagued southern California and were some of the...
Lightning strikes have sparked more than a thousand fires in northern California. Cape Mendocino is at the center of...
This image of the Mountain Pass rare open-pit earth mine was acquired by NASA Terra spacecraft in southeastern...
This figure shows a comparison of interferograms from four different years mapping the rapid ground subsidence over...
Brad Flick, center director at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, talks to students...
This image acquired on August 17, 2000 during Terra orbit 3545 shows Northern California and San Francisco Bay.
This frame from an animation depicts variations in surface elevation resulting from the discharge and recharge of...
This is a spaceborne radar image of the city of Sacramento, the capital of California. Urban areas appear pink and...
California Governor Jerry Brown speaks from a podium underneath the space shuttle Endeavour during the grand opening...
AST-14-881 (16 July 1975) --- An excellent view of Los Angeles, California, as photographed from the Apollo...
Space shuttle Endeavour and its host NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft fly by the Golden Gate Bridge in 2012 on its...
This view of southern California as seen from the Apollo 7 spacecraft during its 18th revolution of the earth....
This satellite image shows smoke from several fires in Oregon and California on Aug. 2, 2015. The Moderate...
The Atlas V fairings for the Landsat 9 mission are transported from the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) to the...