NASA Photo ID: AS07-11-2022 File Name: 10074916.jpg Film Type: 70mm Date Taken: 10/12/68
Title: Southern California as seen from the Apollo 7 spacecraft Description: This view of southern California as seen from the Apollo 7 spacecraft during its 18th revolution of the earth. Photographed from an altitude of 124 nautical miles. The coast of California can be seen from Point Mugu southward to Oceanside. Santa Catalina can be seen below the off shore clouds. Details of the Los Angeles area are obscured by pollution which extends from Banning westard for 100 miles to beyond Malibu. In the upper portion of the photograph can be seen (left to right) the San Joaquin Valley beyond Bakersfield, the Techachapi Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, Owens Valley, Death Valley and the Mojave Desert.

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NASA Photo ID: STS73723054 File Name: 73723054.jpg Date Taken:escription: COLOR 20 OCTOBER - 5 NOVEMBER 1995 STS073-723-054 JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS STS-73 EARTH VIEW (CYPRUS, TURKEY) --- Central Turkey dominates this north-looking panorama, with the long fingered island of Cyprus lower left, surrounded by the deep blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Turkey's capital, Ankara, lies just north of the white bed of a dry lake in the center of the view. The city is supplied with water from the neighboring blue lake. The coast of Syria and Lebanon appear bottom right. Man-made lakes on the upper Euphrates River in eastern Turkey appear extreme right.. According to scientists studying the STS-73 photo collection, the striking difference in visibility to north and south of Turkey suggests a pollution event over the Black Sea. Air pollution from East European industry flows down into the Black Sea basin, especially at the west end (haze top left) as shown in this view (compare clearer air top right).

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NASA Photo ID: STS052-153-101 File Name: 10065360.jpg Film Type: 4x5 Date Taken: 11/01/92
Title: Central and Southern Florida, USA Description: This oblique view documents conditions in South Florida (27.0N, 81.0W) in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew that severly mauled south Florida on 24 Aug 92, battering Dade County with a 16.9 ft. storm surge and wind gusts of up to 169 mph. An additional feature is the band of haze running across the central portion of the state The band of air pollution has been drawn from the north by a weak cold front and was focused along the east/west axis of the front.

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NASA Photo ID: STS052-15-007 File Name: 10065340.jpg Film Type: 35mm Date Taken: 11/01/92
Title: Sunset Description: This cross section of the Earth's atmosphere at sunset and earth limb (24.5S, 43.5E) displays an unusual layering believed to be caused by temperature inversions which effectively concentrate smoke, dust and
aerosols into narrow layers. the top of the stratosphere can be seen as the top of the white layer thought to contain volcanic debris. The purple layer is the troposphere containing smoke from landclearing biomass burning.

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NASA Photo ID: STS048-71-090 File Name: 10065058.jpg Film Type: 70mm Date Taken: 09/18/91
Title: Major Land Clearing Fires, Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia Description:These many and intense land clearing fires in the Kalimantan region of the island of Borneo, Indonesia (3.5S, 113.5E) are indicative of the many deforestation activities on a worldwide scale. In order to feed and house ever increasing populations, more cleared land is required for agriculture to feed ever increasing populations. More pasture lands are needed for livestock. And, more cleared lands are needed for housing.

South America, Forests burning in Brasil

Northern California

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