Photo Researchers ftp March 2011

View from space of four stratovolcanoes near Usulutan, El Salvador, near the midpoint of the Central American Volcanic Arc. From left to right, they a...

View from space of Nevado del Ruiz, a large stratovolcano located approximately 87 miles to the northwest of Bogot?, Colombia. The most severe eruptio...

Panorama of the Central Andres Mountains, looking southeast from Chile's Pacific coast. The high plains, also known as the Puna, appear in the foregro...

The brightly lit metropolitan areas of Torino, Italy and Lyon and Marseille, France, stand out amidst numerous smaller urban areas along the France-It...

View from space of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, home to some of the world's most spectacular examples of inselbergs,...

Oblique (sideways) view of the BP Oil Spill, looking west from the eastern edge of the Gulf of Mexico, taken from the International Space Station (or...

View from space of the Mingachevir Reservoir in north-central Azerbaijan. Also visible is the nearby city of Minachevir (left), split by the Kur River...

View from space of Southern Paramushir Island, part of the Kuril Island chain, a volcanic island arc that extends from Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula to...

View from space of widespread flooding along the Vistula River, a major river in southeastern Poland, on May 22, 2010. Spring flooding of rivers is no...

View from space of Cape Kazantip, a prominent headland on the Kerch Peninsula, on the southern shore of the Sea of Azov, Ukraine.

View of sunset over the Indian Ocean, taken from the International Space Station. A brilliant sequence of colors roughly denotes several layers of the...

View from space of the Gulf of Izmit, a long, narrow waterway that provides ship access to the cities of Izmit and G?lcuk.

View from space of the Mataiva Atoll, the westernmost atoll of the Tuamotu Archipelago, part of French Polynesia. Mataiva Atoll is notable in that its...

View from space of the central Andes Mountains, near the border between Chile and Argentina, an area dominated by volcanoes and associated landforms.

View of from the International Space Station of Hurricane Earl as it hovered over the tropical Atlantic Ocean on August 30, 2010. The eye in this imag...

View from space of Es Safa, a striking basaltic volcano field located to the southeast of Damascus, Syria. The most recent activity was a boiling lava...

View from space of the 19,577-foot-high Sabancaya stratovolcano (Nevado Sabancaya, "tongue of fire" in the local language), located in southern Per?.

View from space of the oil slick created by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. When this image was taken, three months after the explosion on the rig...

View from space of the Dominic Point Fire, a wildfire in Montana. Although this image was taken just one hour after the fire was first reported, the s...

View from space of the west coast of Baja California, roughly one third of the peninsula's length from its southern tip, the land pokes westward like...

Lunar eclipse of 2/20/08 viewed from Winston Salem, North Carolina.

On October 28, 2010, a twisted filament of magnetism on the sun suddenly untwisted, producing this spectacular eruption. At its peak, the twister--or...

Light pollution over Los Angeles as viewed from 40 miles away on Santa Barbara Island. In the center is the Palos Verdes Peninsula with Malibu and the...

The lower chromosphere of the Sun seen at the Calcium K wavelength of 393.3nm in the visual spectrum. A lighter active region glows to the left in thi...

Two large active regions glow in the incandescent chromospheric network of the Sun. Calcium emissions make up only .008 percent of the Sun's mass. Equ...

Two long solar filaments of hydrogen gas hover over a single active region on the Sun's chromosphere. Equipment data: .7 angstrom Coronado SolarMax 90...

A colossal solar prominence spans several Earth diameters. This tenuous, hot cloud of hydrogen gas stretches from the chromosphere into the corona. Eq...

A 400,000 mile filament flows across this full disk hydrogen-alpha image of the Sun. A single Earth-sized sunspot sits among the millions of individua...

A thin, tenuous prominence hovers over the solar chromosphere in this hydrogen-alpha image of the Sun. Equipment Data: Solar Spectrum .2 angstrom hydr...

Three large sunspot groups rotate into view from the eastern limb of the sun. The surrounding spicules bend around the magnetic lines of each active r...

A single solar active region contains three large sunspots as viewed in the hydrogen-alpha emission line of 656.28nm. Equipment Data: Solar Spectrum ....

Several prominences encircle the Sun as a bright active region and darker filaments appear on the disk. The entire disk of the sun was captured in the...

Individual spicules of gas swirl around a sunspot and prominence in this hydrogen-alpha view of the sun. Equipment Data: Solar Spectrum .2 angstrom hy...

A class C8 solar flare erupts from the chromosphere as prominences appear along the limb. When viewed in the hydrogen-alpha wavelength, a flare appear...

Active region 875 glows against the darker spicules of the solar disk in hydrogen-alpha light. Equipment Data: Solar Spectrum .2 angstrom hydrogen-alp...

A large active region and sunspot rotates towards the solar limb in this high magnification, hydrogen-alpha image. Three large gaseous prominences, sp...

Rarefied gases of the solar chromosphere drift into the corona as prominences in this hydrogen-alpha image of the chromosphere. Equipment data: .5 ang...

Two bright active regions glow against the darker spicules of the solar chromosphere eastern limb. Equipment Data: Solar Spectrum .2 angstrom hydrogen...

Hydrogen prominences drift above the solar chromosphere and into the corona when viewed in the 656.28nm emission line of hydrogen-alpha. Equipment Dat...

A single sunspot looms larger than the Earth as magnetic filaments swirl around the associated active region. Equipment Data: Solar Spectrum .2 angstr...

Two large solar sunspot groups are bridged together by a darker filament in this hydrogen-alpha image of the chromosphere. Equipment Data: Solar Spect...

Two large solar filaments extend outward from an active region and it's sunspot in this hydrogen-alpha view of the chromosphere. Equipment Data: Solar...

The individual structures of several solar prominences stand illuminated along the limb in hydrogen-alpha light. Equipment Data: Solar Spectrum .2 ang...

The full disk of the hydrogen-alpha sun shows a large curved filament, bright active region and several prominences along the limb. Equipment data: .5...

The full disk of the calcium K sun shows large supergranule cells of the solar chromospheric network. Equipment data: Coronado SolarMax 90 Calcium K t...

A sunspot group glows brightly among the spicules of hydrogen gas in this highly magnified image of the solar chromosphere. Equipment Data: Solar Spec...

Details of the Sun's chromospheric network emerge when imaged in the Calcium K wavelength of the visual spectrum. The brighter areas indicate the incr...

Viewing the Sun's full disk in hydrogen-alpha light reveals dark sunspots and long filaments on the disk and glowing prominences along the limb. Equip...

The structure of a solar prominence glows against a false color background as imaged in hydrogen-alpha light. Equipment Data: Solar Spectrum .2 angstr...

A large active region of magnetic activity trails a sunspot in the hydrogen-alpha image of the solar chromosphere. Millions of small spicules cover th...