Amazing Satellite Space Camera Views

Niagara Falls  

The image shows the Niagara River that connects 
Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, snaking around Goat 
Island, in the lower left of the full image. Most 
of the river's water plummets over the Canadian/Horseshoe 
Falls, but some diverted water spills over American 
Falls and Bridal Veil Falls downstream. Every second, 
more than two million liters of water plunges over the 
Horsehoe Falls segment of Niagara Falls creating one 
of the world's largest waterfalls as well as eating away 
as much as two meters of rock per year. The image was 
acquired August 2, 2004

Tsunami strikes the coast of Sri Lanka

This is a natural color, 60-centimeter (2-foot) high-resolution 
QuickBird satellite image featuring the southwestern coast 
of Sri Lanka. Imagery was collected on December 26, 2004 
at 10:20 a.m. local time, slightly less than four hours after t
he 6:28 a.m. (local Sri Lanka time) earthquake and shortly 
after the moment of tsunami impact.

Ground Zero, New York City



This one-meter resolution satellite image of Manhattan, 
New York was collected at 11:43 a.m.. EDT on 
Sept. 12, 2001 by Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite. 
The image shows an area of white and gray-colored 
dust and smoke at the location where the 1,350-foot 
towers of the World Trade Center once stood. Since 
all airplanes were grounded over the U.S. after the 
attack, IKONOS ! was the only commercial high-resolution 
camera that could take an overhead image at the time.

Grand Canyon

Northern Arizona and the Grand Canyon are 
captured in this pair of Multi-angle Imaging S
pectroradiometer (MISR) images from December
31, 2000. The above image is a true color view from the 
nadir (vertical) camera. In addition to the Grand Canyon
itself, which is visible in the western (lower) half of the 
images, other landmarks include Lake Powell, on the left, 
and Humphreys Peak and Sunset Crater National Monument 
on the right. Meteor Crater appears as a small dark depression 
with a brighter rim, and is just visible along the upper right-hand edge.

Malosmadulu Atolls, Maldives

North and South Malosmadulu Atolls are in the Maldives, an island republic 
in the northern Indian Ocean, southwest of India. The Maldives are made 
up of a chain! of 1,192 small coral islands, which are grouped into clusters 
of atolls.. It has a total area of 298 square kilometers and a population 
of about 330,000. The capital and largest city is Male, with a population 
of about 80,000. Arguably the lowest-lying country in the world, the 
average elevation is just 1 meter above sea level. The natural-color 
ASTER image of the Malosmadulu Atolls was acquired on 
December 22, 2002, and is centered near 5.3 degrees North l
atitude, 73.9 degrees West longitude.

Ayers Rock (Uluru), Australia

This IKONOS satellite image of Ayers Rock was collected 
Jan. 17, 2004. Ayers Rock is located in Kata Tjuta 
National Park, 280 miles (450km) southwest of 
Alice Springs, Australia. It is the world's largest 
monolith, an Aboriginal sacred site and Australia's 
most famous natural landmark.

Noah's Ark Site?

Is it or isn't it? Satellite images of Mt. Ararat, Turkey have 
pointed to a possible sighting of Noah's Ark. Decide for 
yourself! Compare this image taken by Digital Globe 
on September 10, 2003 with Shamrock -- The Trinity 
Corporation' s image (enlarge). Also, note their image is flipped.

The Nile River

This image of the northern portion of the Nile River 
was captured by the Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer' s 
(MISR's) nadir camera on January 30, 2001. Against the 
barren desert of northeastern Africa, the fertile valley of 
the Nile River runs northward through Egypt. The city 
of Cairo can be seen as a gray smudge right where 
the river widens into its broad fan-shaped delta. Other 
cities are dotted across the green landscape, giving it 
a speckled appearance. Where the Nile empties into the 
Mediterranean Sea (top) the waters are swirling with 
color, likely a mixture of sediment, organic matter, 
and possibly marine plant life. Farther west! , the
bright blue color of the water is likely less-organically 
rich sediment, perhaps sand.

Earth's City Lights

This image of Earth's city lights, captured on October 19, 2000, 
was created with data from the Defense Meteorological 
Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS). 
The brightest areas of the Earth are the most urbanized, 
but not necessarily the most populated. Cities tend 
to grow along coastlines and transportation networks. 
The United States interstate highway system appears 
as a lattice connecting the brighter dots of city centers. I
n Russia, the Trans-Siberian railroad is a thin line 
stretching from Moscow through the center of Asia to 
Vladivostok. The Nile River, from the Aswan Dam to 
the Mediterranean Sea, is another bright thread through
an otherwise dark region.

Mount St. Helens, Washington

 
 

On a Space Station expedition, astronauts observed and 
captured this detailed image of the volcano's summit caldera.
In the center of the crater sits a lava dome that is 876 feet 
above the crater floor and is about 3,500 feet in diameter. 
The dome began to form after the May 18, 1980 eruption 
of Mount Saint Helens. After the eruption, there was not 
any dome building eruptions for more than a decade. 
Afternoon lighting accents the flow features in the volcanic 
and debris flows and the steep valleys eroded into the looselyc
onsolidated material near the summit. This picture was taken 
on October 25, 2002

The Great Pyramid, Giza, Egypt