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NASA scientist Bryan Blair introduces a laser mapping sensor known as LVIS (the Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor),...
SL2-81-162 (22 June 1973) --- The most striking feature of this scene of the western Great Plains and the Badlands...
STS068-244-022 (30 September-11 October 1994) --- (San Francisco, San Pablo Bay Area) Photographed through the Space...
The northern reaches of North America are getting greener, according to a NASA study that provides the most detailed...
This perspective view shows the Strait of Gibraltar, which is the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea from the...
NASA image acquired Feb. 9, 2011 Less than 5 percent of Algeria’s land surface is suitable for growing crops, and...
ISS010-E-05072 (25 October 2004) --- Ibera Swamp topography in northeast Argentina is featured in this image...
SL4-93-153 (February 1974) --- A vertical view of the Birmingham and central Alabama area is seen in this Skylab 4...
SL4-93-167 (February 1974) --- A vertical view of the Kennedy Space Center and the Florida Atlantic coast area is...
Mount Oyama is a 820-meter-high (2,700 feet) volcano on the island of Miyake-Jima, Japan. In late June 2000, a...
NASA's SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive) satellite observatory conducted a field experiment as part of its soil...
ISS019-E-014918 (7 May 2009) --- Saint Helena Island is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 19...
Goddard scientist David Harding and Goddard technologist Tony Yu are developing a lidar system that could meet an...
SL4-137-3700 (22 Dec. 1973) --- A near vertical view of a portion of South Island, New Zealand, as see from the...
After draining the northern flank of the Alps Mountains in Germany and Austria, the Danube River flows east as it...
ISS016-E-005121 (21 Oct. 2007) --- Wellington, New Zealand is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition...
On April 9, 2013 at 11:52 GMT, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit southwestern Iran's Bushehr province near the town of...