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A tiger swallowtail butterfly drinks nectar from a plumeless thistle flower in an abandoned agricultural field.

A zebra swallowtail butterfly drinks nectar from a plumeless thistle flower in an abandoned agricultural field.

A tiger swallowtail butterfly drinks nectar from a plumeless thistle flower in an abandoned agricultural field. This is the yellow form of the female Eastern tiger swallowtail. Females have blue scales on the lower hind wing.

A monarch butterfly drinks nectar from a plumeless thistle flower in an abandoned agricultural field.

An Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly (female, black form) drinks nectar from a plumeless thistle flower in an abandoned agricultural field. Females have blue scales on the upper side of the lower hindwing.

An adult great spangled fritillary butterfly rests on the strap of a backpack left in the sun at a field research station. It may have been attracted to the radiant heat or salts left behind on the strap in human sweat.

An adult great spangled fritillary butterfly rests on the arm of a chair at a field research station.

Pinned butterfly specimens sold as souveniors in a market.

Pinned butterfly specimens and a spider sold as souveniors in a market.

Pinned butterfly specimens and a spider sold as souveniors in a market.

Pinned butterfly specimens and a spider sold as souveniors in a market.

Pinned butterfly specimens sold as souveniors in a market.

Pinned butterfly specimens and a spider sold as souveniors in a market.

Graphical illustration of lidar pulse versus a lidar return

Example of the Landsat 7 ETM+ Collection 2 level-1 product. This Landsat 7 image was acquired on January 1, 2003 near Ciudad Obregón, Mexico and is shown as a natural color composite using the red, green, and blue bands (bands 3,2,1).

New York’s Adirondack Park is the largest publicly-protected area in the conterminous United States, greater in size than Yellowstone, Everglades, Glacier, and Grand Canyon National Parks combined.

Capital Albany

Image Source Landsat 8

Population 20,201,249

View southward from Fortress Mountain Formation on Atigun syncline towards Brooks Range.  Trans-Alaska Pipeline, haul road, and Galbraith Lake in valley.  Location in Brooks Range foothills, about 90 miles southeast of Umiat.

This labeled Landsat 7 image from June 19, 2001, shows the path of damage caused by a June 18, 2001, tornado that passed near Siren, Wisconsin.

During invasions of the ice sheets (about 10,000 to 1,800,000 years ago), the glacial landscape of the Central Great Lakes region was a foreboding and barren place. In this scene, melting along the front edge of the continental ice sheet feeds water and sediment into a river and glacial lake.

NASA launched the Terra satellite in the Earth Observing System series containing MODIS and ASTER instruments in 1999. Data from the instruments is stored at and distributed from the LP DAAC, and EROS scientists use the data in a variety of projects.

Each advance and retreat of the ice sheet left behind a landscape composed of patches of clay, silt, sand, gravel and till, commonly capped by soil. This block diagram provides an artistic depiction of a modern landscape on glacial deposits.