Brilliant orange leaves paint the mountains of northern Pennsylvania in this natural-color image acquired on October 13, 2010.
Published Oct 16, 2010
A process that occurs on a micro scale in trees shows up on a macro scale in satellite imagery.
Published Sep 30, 2014
In autumn, the leaves on deciduous trees change colors as they lose chlorophyll, the molecule that plants use to synthesize food.
Published Sep 29, 2020
The ISS-7 crew of the International Space Station enjoyed a bird’s-eye view of New England’s fall colors on a fine October morning in 2003. The fall foliage of Baxter Woods Park in Portland, Maine, shows the reds and browns of a mix of trees, including maple, old-growth white oaks, and hemlock. Nearby Evergreen Cemetery is highlighted by the brilliant red and yellow leaves of maple trees. Surrounded by the cityscape of Portland, the wooded cemetery is known for both historic headstones and wooded trails.
Published Dec 1, 2003
Held in place by reinforced levees, the swollen Red River snakes through Fargo, North Dakota, and Moorhead, Minnesota, in this image captured by the Advanced Land Imager on the EO-1 satellite on March 28, 2009.
Published Mar 31, 2009
The Franz Josef Strauss, or Munich, International Airport served 29 million passengers in 2005, making it Germany’s second-busiest airport, after Frankfurt. This astronaut photograph, taken from the International Space Station, shows enough detail to distinguish individual airplanes on the terminal apron, and the dark gray-blue rooftop of Terminal 2.
Published Oct 9, 2006
Cooler temperatures and shorter days have transformed Pennsylvania’s forests.
Published Oct 30, 2013
Fall colors swept across the Mid-Atlantic during October 2012.
Published Oct 26, 2012
Beneath a collection of contrails, colorful foliage spreads across a mountain landscape in the eastern U.S.
Published Nov 2, 2019
A photograph from the space station shows some of the natural features that have governed the growth of the city.
Published Dec 22, 2014
The largest airport in Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth International (DFW) is also the fourth largest in the world, and it occupies more surface area than the entire island of Manhattan in New York. This astronaut photograph captures the entire airport and portions of the surrounding Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.
Published Jul 3, 2006
Leaves change from green to orange and brown across the United States and Canada.
Published Oct 15, 2015
Trees have long been cherished here for timber and for the colors they bring to “the Fall Rhapsody.”
Published Oct 24, 2020
A second round of spring flooding on the Red River was captured in an astronaut photo from April 9, 2009.
Published Apr 27, 2009
Landsat images show that waterways near Noril’sk blushed red long before they achieved internet virality in 2016.
Published Sep 15, 2016
Repeated flooding in the Red River basin is mostly due to its topographic setting and geologic history, as illustrated in this image of the ground elevation near Fargo, North Dakota.
Published Apr 4, 2009
In a span of just 11 days, fall colors swept over the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Siberia.
Published Oct 4, 2012
