California’s Central Valley toward the Rocky Mountains

iss073e0420556 (Aug. 3, 2025) --- From bottom to top, or from west to east in this orientation, California's Central Valley extends across the bottom of this photograph and just above the San Francisco Bay Area. Past the Central Valley is the Sierra Nevada mountain range that leads into Nevada's Great Basin region and eastward toward the Rocky Mountains. The International Space Station was soaring 260 miles above the Pacific Ocean at the time of this photograph.