A catalog of NASA images and animations of our home planet

• Credit:

  MODIS Instrument Team, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,

This image shows the true color of the land surface, acquired by MODIS, draped over a surface topography map clearly distinguish the low-lying Indian sub-continent from the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau to the north. Dark green areas show where there is lush vegetation. The blue area to the bottom right is the Arabian Sea.

Images & Animations

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• Database Updated: June 20, 2013