Earth observations taken during the STS-79 mission from the space shuttle Atlantis including: Lake Banula, Mali (001), African overgrazing near Gweru Zimbabwe (002-4), Mozambique (005), Dakar with its runway (006), River in the Namib desert (009), South African escarpment (018), Providence, RI (024), Cape Cod (025), Rhode Island, including Westport, MA. (028,036), Boston (032,034), Rhode Island (036), Westport, Cape Cod, Boston (037), Des Moines (city), Des Moines River, IA (040), Chicago (043-4), Columbia, SC (045), Marion (city), Lake Marion, Lake Moultine, SC (046), Cape Fear (050), Savannah (city), Savannah River, GA (051-2), Jacksonville, FL. (053-4), KSC (055), Mt. Shasta, CA (068), Lake Powell, AZ and UT (072), mountains near Monterrey Mexico (079), San Salvador, El Salvador (082), South American river with oxbow lakes (094).