Snapshot
June 29, 2009
Death Valley, California, the lowest, driest, hottest place in North America, comes alive in this view looking northwest across the valley toward Telescope Peak. For a high-resolution, zoomable image, click here. NASA and Japan released a new digital topographic map of Earth June 29, 2009, which includes this image, and covers more of the planet than ever—from 83 degrees North latitude to 83 degrees South. The map was produced with detailed measurements and nearly 1.3 million individual stereo-pair images collected by Japan's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, an instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite. The new global digital elevation model of Earth is available online to users everywhere at no cost.
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