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Low clouds filled California’s Central Valley in late January, 2015. Such winter fog is considered a common...
This still from an animation shows, in exaggerated terms, how the surface of the southern Central Valley of...
iss073e0420556 (Aug. 3, 2025) --- From bottom to top, or from west to east in this orientation, California's Central...
This image of California Hayward fault is an interferogram created using a pair of images taken by ESA ERS-1 and...
This illustration highlights key events in the launch of NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, beginning with its...
These images from NASA Terra satellite are of the Central Valley and the Sierra Nevada Mountains showing several...
San Joaquin, the name given to the southern portion of California vast Central Valley, as shown in this image...
This image captured by a prototype NASA satellite instrument at NASA California Laboratory for Atmospheric Remote...
This anaglyph, from NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, shows rugged terrain between Los Angeles and California...
NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, perched atop a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket, awaits launch at the...
This artist's concept depicts the NISAR satellite in orbit over central and Northern California. Short for NASA-ISRO...
RSRA (NASA-741) in flight Central California
The BirdReturns program, created by The Nature Conservancy of California, is an effort to provide "pop-up habitats"...
NASA's InSight to Mars undergoes final preparations at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Central California, ahead of its...
ER-2 (NASA 706) IN FLIGHT over California's Central Valley (Artwork by Robert Bausch)
Equipped with a pod-mounted infrared imaging sensor, the Altair UAS aided fire mapping efforts over wildfires in...
iss070e014216 (Oct. 26, 2023) --- California's Central Valley region is clearly visible from the International Space...
iss073e0420567 (Aug. 3, 2025) --- California's San Francisco Bay Area surrounded by the cities of San Francisico,...
President Joe Biden exits Air Force One at Moffett Federal Airfield before continuing his trip to view consequences...
NASA Student Airborne Research Program participants pose in front of the DC-8 before their flight on Jun 23, 2022....
iss064e002057 (Oct. 28, 2020) --- The Earth's limb, or horizon, with the Sonoran Desert below, is pictured as the...
President Joe Biden exits Air Force One at Moffett Federal Airfield before continuing his trip to view consequences...
B-roll for media and public use. Above Santa Barbara County, scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are...
This view shows the west coast of the United States and Mexico (32.5N, 118.0W) and gives an indication of the range...