New York from Space

Credit: ESA, Posted on: Saturday, 1 October 2005, 09:17 CDT Download full size image

An Envisat view of the East Coast of the United States including the city of New York.

The city is situated along the coast at the mouth of the Hudson River. With an urban population of just over eight million and a metropolitan area of over 21 million it is the largest city in the USA.

Zooming in on the image Staten Island can be seen, and also the borough of Queens occupying the southern part of Long Island. Southwest of New York on the flanks of the Delaware River is located Philadelphia, home to more than 1.5 million people.

Further south past the Delmarva Peninsula of Delaware and Maryland are the cities of Baltimore and Washington DC, the latter being the US capital.

Inland to the west can be observed the valleys and ridges of the Appalachian Mountains. To the north are the Finger Lakes of New York State, and in the top north-western corner of the image is Lake Ontario.

This image was acquired by Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) on 12 June 2004. It covers a width of 672 kilometres.

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