Image of the Day Land
Acquired May 7, 2000, this natural-color image shows the Lake District National Park of North West England.
Acquired July 27, 2001, this natural-color image shows part of Wadi Rum, a protected desert landscape in Jordan.
Acquired January 16, 2005, this true-color image shows part of the inhospitable limestone landscape of western Madagascar, with bare rocks and vegetation forming a patchwork of gray and green.
This ancient rock is one of Australia’s major tourist attractions and a sacred place for indigenous people.
This astronaut photo of Raven Ridge, Colorado, shows a long stretch of exposed rocks that mark the K-T Boundary, the time when dinosaurs went extinct.
Afternoon sunlight highlights the rounded summits and eroded fractures of the Kata Tjuta rock formation in this astronaut photo from April 30, 2010.
An astronaut captured this view of the Front Range, the San Juan Mountains, and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
The mountains of northeastern Oman are high and dry, but millions of years ago, they were underneath an ocean.