Earth from Space - Image Description

STS51B-53-0019 Dalton Area, Georgia, U.S.A. May 1985
Apparent in this southeast-looking photograph is sunglint on light, irregular-shaped Carters Lake within the heavily forested Chattahochee National Forest of northwest Georgia. Also visible are numerous dark, forested, paralleling ridgelines and intervening valleys oriented in a northeast-southwest direction. Discernible are highly reflective Dalton and Calhoun (near center of the photograph) and extending southeast from Chattanooga, Tennessee, narrow, linear highways (bottom left side), including Interstate Highway 75.

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