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The ‘Land of Giants’

Roughly one-third of the world’s naturally occurring sequoias grow in 75 groves in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. and ASTER GDEM data from NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. Caption by Pola Lem.

Published September 27, 2016
Data acquired September 1, 2016

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Collection:
U.S. National Parks