Earth from Space - Image Description

STS056-109-024 Hobbs, New Mexico, U.S.A. April 1993
Visible are scattered white dots that designate producing oil and gas wells west and northwest of Hobbs whose faint outline appears along the bottom left side of the photograph. Apparent are two airports and their respective intersecting runways west and northwest of Hobbs; State Highway 18, which connects Hobbs with Lovington to the northwest, another small community near the Texas-New Mexico border; and rectangular and circular irrigated, cultivated fields, most of which are located in west Texas.

This service is provided by the International Space Station program and the JSC Earth Science & Remote Sensing Unit, ARES Division, Exploration Integration Science Directorate.