This detailed astronaut photograph highlights the Santa Barbara, California, metropolitan area, sometimes called the “American Riviera.”
Published Feb 9, 2009
In this Florida town, you can find streets with reindeer names, a special mailbox for Santa Claus, and a fort that soldiers started building on December 25, 1837.
Published Dec 25, 2017
Plumes streaming from this mountain in Guatemala are usually related to volcanic activity. But in March 2018, a wildfire burned on its slopes.
Published Mar 23, 2018
Intermittently active, the Santa Maria Volcano released a plume in mid-January 2007.
Published Feb 4, 2007
As the Sherpa fire charred thousands of acres west of Santa Barbara in June 2016, NASA’s DC-8 flew over and sampled the fire’s smoke.
Published Jul 2, 2016
After sunset the borders of "The City of Angels" are defined as much by its dark terrain features as by its well-lit grid of streets and freeways.
Published Apr 6, 2003
Tucson lies between the forested Catalina Mountains and the Tucson Mountains (dark reddish brown at the left image margin).The typical western North American cityscape is a pattern of regular north-south aligned rectangles outlined by major streets set one mile apart.
Published Jul 19, 2004
In Colombia, high mountains show a rare sight in the tropics: snow and ice.
Published Apr 13, 2015
This natural-color image from the Advanced Land Imager on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite shows the Jesusita Fire burned area on May 13, 2008.
Published May 15, 2009
