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The southernmost tip of Africa is marked by the Cape Agulhas lighthouse. The warm Atlantic Agulhas current meets the...
iss071e378517 (July 21, 2024) --- Mount Kilimanjaro, surrounded by clouds and the highest mountian in Africa, is...
The Suomi NPP satellite's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument captured a look at huge...
Africa is front and center in this image of Earth taken by a NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory...
NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite detected thousands of fires burning in central Africa on July 11, 2016. The fires are...
This is an image of equatorial Africa, centered on the equator at longitude 15degrees east. This image is a mosaic...
Widespread agricultural burning continues throughout central Africa. Smoke and fires in several countries were seen...
AST-14-890 (18 July 1975) --- An oblique view of unique drainage patterns in southwestern Africa in the Rio Cuando...
STS054-151-009 (13-19 Jan 1993) --- This large format camera's view shows the circular volcanic structure of the...
Africa's Lake Chad where the borders of Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon merge (13.0N, 14.0E) has been undergoing...
One of the driest regions on Earth, the Namib Desert, Namibia, Africa (23.0N, 15.0E) lies adjacent to the Atlantic...
This visualization of a gravity model was created with data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment and...
On June 26, 2016, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this...
STS058-77-083 (18 Oct-1 Nov 1993) --- In this scene of the south coast of Africa, Cape Agulhas, the southernmost...
This radar image covers a portion of the Richtersveld National Park and Orange River top of image in the Northern...
NASA CloudSat image of a horizontal cross-section of tropical clouds and thunderstorms over east Africa.
On April 23, 2013 NASA’s Terra satellite passed off the coast of West Africa, allowing the Moderate Resolution...
STS061-106-091 (December 1993) --- The entire southern tip of Africa is shown in this high altitude 50mm photograph....
STS054-152-189 (13-19 Jan. 1993) --- This near-vertical color photograph shows the very diverse landscape that is...
The striking contrast of geologic structures in Africa is shown in this shaded relief image of Mt. Elgon on the left...
These views from NASA Terra satellite highlight a number of the land use, vegetation, and geological features found...
This radar image shows a close up view of a portion of the Richtersveld National Park and Orange River top of image...
This image of northeast Africa and the Arabian Peninsula was taken from an altitude of about 500,000 kilometers...
This map shows the abundance of airborne particulates, or aerosols, over Southern Africa during the period August...