Earth from Space - Image Description

STS070-712-063 Fort Myers, Florida, U.S.A. July 1995
This photograph covers essentially the same area as STS069-718-0053. Readily identifiable from north to south are the mouth of the Peace River at Port Charlotte; Charlotte Harbor; Sanibel and Pine Islands; the expanding cities of North Fort Myers, Cape Coral, and Fort Myers (south of the Caloosahatchee River); and urban and commercial developments south of Fort Myers. Interstate Highway 75 and segments of U.S. Highway 41 are discernible.

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