Earth from Space - Image Description

STS073-725-014 Platte River, Nebraska, U.S.A. October 1995
The Platte River traverses west to east between North Platte and Kearney (neither discernible) in this north-northwest-looking, low-oblique photograph. Obvious are early winter snows on either side of the river and some agricultural fields that have been cleared of snow by the wind.

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