Earth from Space - Image Description

STS068-208-107 Crescent City, California, U.S.A. October 1994
Southwest Oregon and northwest California, home of some giant redwood trees, are featured in this photograph. Vegetation (displayed as reds on color infrared film) is discernible--the lighter, more highly reflective areas within the forests show areas of clear-cutting. Viewing south to north on this Pacific deltoid peninsula are Crescent City; dark, irregular Lake Earl; and the mouth of the Smith River. The mouth of the Klamath River lies south of Crescent City.

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