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Southern California dramatic topography plays acritical role in its climate, hydrology, ecology, agriculture, and...
The diversity of landforms that make up the state of California is evident in this new [sic] rendition of the 3-D...
Wheeler Ridge and vicinity, California, is a site of major tectonic activity, both historically and over recent...
STS062-153-226 (4-18 March 1994) --- Though it did not reproduce well, this photo gives scientific information to...
NASA Astronauts, from left, Danny Olivas, Garrett Reisman, Barbara Morgan, and, NASA Associate Administrator for...
Six students from the California State University, Northridge, Autonomy Research Center for science, technology,...
The Blackhawk landslide, Lucerne Valley, California, is a lobe of marble breccia, 10 to 30 m thick, 3 km wide, and...
STS059-154-160 (9-20 April 1994) --- Orient with Mono Lake, California at the lower right; then the view is westward...
This image is of Ventura, California, one of this state oldest cities, and Lake Casitas, California. NASA Shuttle...
This image from NASA Terra spacecraft shows Shasta Lake in northern California, which has an area of 12,000 ha,...
iss073e0272502 (June 4, 2025) --- The Gulf of California splits the Mexican states of Baja California (top) and...
Vocalist James Ingram sings "I Believe I Can Fly" from underneath the space shuttle Endeavour during the grand...
Throughout the month of September 2020, NASA's ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station...
This anaglyph, from NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, shows Wheeler Ridge and vicinity, California, a site of...
On May 30, 2013, NASA Terra spacecraft acquired this image of the largest solar plant of its kind in the world...
This image is a false-color composite of the Mammoth Mountain area in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California. The...
The effects of California severe multiyear drought are seen in this pair of images acquired by NASA Terra spacecraft...
Southern California Santa Anas are dry, north-easterly winds having speeds in excess of 25 knots 46 kilometers/hour....
SL4-138-3843 (1 Jan. 1974) --- A part of northern California centered near San Francisco Bay photographed at 3 p.m....
iss073e0865795 (Oct. 1, 2025) --- The Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez, separates mainland Mexico...
STS059-L09-162 (9-20 April 1994) --- Orient with the snow-covered mountains (Sierra Nevada of California) in the...
STS059-86-059 (9-20 April 1994) --- This oblique handheld Hasselblad 70mm photo shows Death Valley, near...
The Salton Sea in south California was created in 1905 when spring flooding on the Colorado River breached a canal....
STS033-S-014 (27 Nov 1989) --- The Space Shuttle Discovery is silhouetted against late afternoon California skies as...