Earth from Space - Image Description

STS064-214-022 Coast Range Near Red Bluff, California, U.S.A. September 1994
The tree-covered slopes of the Coast Range and Mendocino National Forest are captured in this near-vertical photograph. Visible are a series of north-south-trending parallel hogback ridges and a series of alluvial fans east of the Coast Range, descending to the Sacramento River near the city of Red Bluff. Extending generally eastward is the south fork of meandering Cottonwood Creek. Thomas Creek is visible near the bottom left.

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