Cloud Lightning

Rocky Mountain Region

Landsat 8

Acquired 2014-10-04

U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 4

What looks like lightning arcing through an ominous cloud is actually a dry landscape of rocky buttes in southern Utah and northeastern Arizona. River channels flow north from Arizona into the San Juan River. The light vertical feature at the top of the image is referred to as Comb Ridge, a jagged fold in the Earth's crust called a monocline.

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U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 4. Imagery in the public domain; the edit and sequencing are Orbital Artifacts’.

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Imagery curated from Earth as Art, courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data.

Acquired 2014-10-04Landsat 8

OA-032

Cloud Lightning

Rocky Mountain Region

Landsat 8

Acquired 2014-10-04

U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 4

What looks like lightning arcing through an ominous cloud is actually a dry landscape of rocky buttes in southern Utah and northeastern Arizona. River channels flow north from Arizona into the San Juan River. The light vertical feature at the top of the image is referred to as Comb Ridge, a jagged fold in the Earth's crust called a monocline.

Curated from

U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 4. Imagery in the public domain; the edit and sequencing are Orbital Artifacts’.

Limited edition

10 of 10 remaining

Available as

Not yet in the shop. Get in touch → for commissions or an early print of this scene.

← Back to archive

← Previous

Algerian Sahara

OA-031

Next →

Vatnajokull Glacier Ice Cap

OA-033