Earth from Space - Image Description

STS61B-052-0042 Kingsville and South Texas Coastal Plain, Texas, U.S.A. November 1985
Kingsville, 34 miles (55 kilometers) southwest of Corpus Christi (not in photograph), is featured in this north-northwest-looking, low-oblique photograph. Most of the healthy (red) vegetation in this color infrared photograph is part of gigantic King Ranch that encompasses more than 2000 square miles (5180 square kilometers). Kingsville, headquarters for the vast King Ranch, is a processing center for farm products, oil, and natural gas.

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