As springtime arrives in the Andes, winter snow melts to provide an important water source for local communities.
Published Oct 20, 2020
Within a three-hour drive across Oregon, you can visit a beach, a temperate rainforest, a mountain glacier, and the high desert.
Published Sep 23, 2012
As the end of Southern Hemisphere winter approached, snow painted the Andes Mountains.
Published Sep 20, 2015
This depiction of an area south of San Martin de Los Andes, Argentina, was the first Shuttle Radar Topography Mission view of the tallest mountain chain in the western hemisphere.
Published Jun 19, 2001
An astronaut on the International Space Station captured this view of the river valley that contains the famed Pan-American Highway.
Published Jun 27, 2016
Astronauts captured a striking glimpse of the Andes Mountains, which divide lush forest from the Atacama Desert.
Published Jan 19, 2020
Every austral winter in the central Andes, fresh snowfall covers and fills the gaps between mountaintops that have more permanent snow and ice.
Published Aug 11, 2018
The waters along the west coast of North America are some of the most biologically productive in the world.
Published Mar 1, 2016
Fall color highlights the rugged topography of the Caucasus Mountain Ranges and surrounding lowlands on November 9, 2008.
Published Nov 11, 2008
This astronaut photograph was taken looking east as the International Space Station was flying about 100 kilometers (about 62 miles) off the Peruvian coast and shows Cordillera Huayhuash (pronounced “Why-wash”).
Published Jul 21, 2008
Astronauts got an oblique look at the high plains and mountains of Bolivia.
Published Feb 19, 2018
Clouds dissipated over the Caucasus Mountains and Moscow, revealing landscapes blanketed in white.
Published Feb 8, 2018
Colors ranging from deep brown to stark white give New Zealand’s South Island its intense beauty. The snow-capped Southern Alps run down the northern shore of the island. The mountains are rising as the Pacific Plate, the section of the Earth’s crust that holds the Pacific Ocean, including parts of New Zealand’s South Island, sinks beneath the Australia Plate, which holds the rest of New Zealand.
Published Dec 22, 2007
This photo-like image paints a picture of the movement of air and weather over the Ural Mountains in southern Russia, with the western mountains covered with snow and the eastern plain dry. The image also illustrates the influence of the mountains on cloud formations.
Published Nov 21, 2008
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