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Photo Contest Winner | Feb. 2020 | Honorable Mention 2
Collecting data at Ellis Island after Hurricane Sandy

Photo Contest Winner | Feb. 2020 | Honorable Mention 1
Box turtle

Kevin T. Gallagher, USGS Associate Director, Core Science Systems, address members

 of the Alaska Mapping Roundtable on the issues and status of completing the mapping of Alaska.

The image is from the Martian southern polar region. CO2 ice shown here is about 10 feet thick, and the semi-circular depressions are about 200 ft across. 

This illustration shows the Landsat 8 satellite in space over the southeastern United States. 

The roughly west-east trail of destruction from the April 27, 2011, Tuscaloosa-Birmingham tornado is clearly visible in these Landsat images. This was one of 358 recorded tornadoes during the April 25-28, 2011, tornado outbreak, the most severe in U.S. history.

Example of the Landsat Collection 2 Fractional Snow Covered Area (fSCA) Science Product showing an area in the Dixie National Forest in Utah on February 28, 2021 for tile h007V010. Left: Landsat Collection 2 U.S. Analysis Ready Data Surface Reflectance image, Middle: fSCA, and Right: Canopy Adjusted fSCA.

Example of the Landsat 4-5 TM Collection 2 level-1 product. This Landsat 5 image was acquired on October 6, 2010 near Seattle, Washington and is shown as a natural color composite using the red, green, and blue bands (bands 3,2,1).

Example of the Landsat 4-5 TM Collection 2 level-2 science products. Left: Landsat 5 level-2 surface reflectance image. Right: Landsat 5 level-2 surface temperature image. The data was acquired on October 6, 2010 (path 47 row 27).

Example of Landsat 5 Collection 2 data over Bremerton, WA. acquired on October 6, 2010. Left: Level 1 data, middle: Level-2 surface reflectance, right: Level-2 surface temperature.

Remnants of a spruce forest complex following a severe wildfire in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. Wildfires are the dominant landscape-scale disturbance operating at annual time scales in Alaska, and fires play a major role in the rate and extent of vegetation growth and productivity of a site.

An approximately 2 inch long monarch butterfly caterpillar or larva grazes on the leaves of a butterfly weed in a northern Virginia garden. The dark lumps on the leaves around the caterpillar are its droppings or feces.

An approximately 2 inch long monarch butterfly caterpillar or larva grazes on the leaves of a butterfly weed in a northern Virginia garden. The dark lumps on the leaves around the caterpillar are its droppings or feces.

An adult red admiral butterfly drinking nectar from a butterfly weed flower in a residential garden.

An adult red admiral butterfly drinking nectar from a butterfly weed flower in a residential garden.

An adult pearl crescent butterfly drinks nectar from a butterfly weed flower in a residential garden.

A red admiral butterfly drinking nectar from a butterfly weed flower in a residential garden.

An adult red admiral butterfly drinking nectar from a butterfly weed flower in a residential garden.

A grey hairstreak butterfly rests on the leaf of a shasta daisy in a residential garden.

Adult red admiral and pearl crescent butterflies drink nectar from a butterfly weed flower in a residential garden.

An adult red admiral butterfly drinking nectar from a butterfly weed flower in a residential garden.