Earth from Space - Image Description

STS073-725-025 Missouri River, Missouri, U.S.A. October 1995
Featured in this west-looking, low-oblique photograph is the east-trending Missouri River between Grand Pass (not discernible) and Boonville (not discernible). In this region the floodplain of the Missouri River narrows as it reaches the northern portion of the Ozark Plateau. The effects of the floods of 1993 are still evident.

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