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NASA Radar Provides 3-D View of San Andreas Fault

Where the Pacific plate and North American plate meet, the intense pressure of the collision creates an 800-mile-long fracture zone.


NASA image courtesy Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey, based on the Planetary Photojournal’s image description.

Published June 23, 2009
Data acquired November 1, 2008

Source:
Aircraft Sensors > UAVSAR