View of Florida from Space

Florida, USA, taken from Shuttle Mission STS-95 on 31st October 1998.
NASA public domain material, source http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/BROWSE/space-shuttle_14

Taken during the STS-95 mission from a point over Cuba, this photo shows an oblique view of the Florida Peninsula, with the light blue, shallow seafloor of both the Florida Keys (curving across the bottom of the view) and the Bahama banks (right). Cumulus cloud covers Miami and the Southern Everglades, although the built-up area from Ft. Lauderdale to West Palm Beach can be discerned. Lake Okeechobee is the prominent waterbody in Florida. Cape Canaveral is shown well, half way up the peninsula. Orlando appears as the lighter patch west (left) of Cape Canaveral, near the middle of the peninsula. Cape Hatteras appears top right, with the north part of Chesapeake Bay also visible.

Prepared for Wikipedia by Adrian Pingstone in June 2003.