Earth from Space - Image Description

STS068-273-040 Mount Shasta, California, U.S.A. October 1994
Mount Shasta, a stratovolcano located in the southern Cascade Mountains, is featured in this low-oblique, east-southeast-looking photograph. Glaciers are visible near the top of this 14 162-foot (4319-meter) dormant volcano that last erupted in 1768. Small rectangular patterns of clear-cutting in Shasta-Trinity National Forest are visible to the east and southeast.

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