Earth from Space - Image Description

NM21-765-036 Mississippi River and Burlington, Iowa, U.S.A. Winter 1995-1996
The muddy Mississippi River and numerous agricultural field patterns in its floodplain are featured in this northeast-looking, low-oblique photograph. Burlington, a river city (midway between center and bottom center) on the west bank of the Mississippi, is a farm, shipping, and manufacturing center in this rich agricultural region and home of one of the state's oldest newspapers still in publication.

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