Astronaut Ivan Vagner captured from ISS the Yosemite National Park, California, U.S.
Yosemite National Park is surrounded on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. Yosemite is one of the largest and least fragmented habitat blocks in the Sierra Nevada, and the park supports a diversity of plants and animals. The geology of the Yosemite area is characterized by granite rocks and remnants of older rock. European American settlers first entered Yosemite Valley itself in 1851. Yosemite was critical to the development of the national park idea.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Ivan Vagner’s Tweet
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