San Francisco Bay is one of the most recognizable landforms on earth. This image includes Half-Moon Bay, the San Andreas Lakes (formed by the San Andreas fault), Golden Gate Park, Alcatraz, the Golden Gate Bridge, Stinson Beach, essentially all of the upper and lower bays, and the lower ends of the Napa and Sonoma valleys. The ocean swells display an interesting pattern of reflection and diffraction while the bay itself is relatively smooth. The prison building on Alcatraz is clearly visible in this image as are the San Francisco waterfront and Fisherman's Wharf. The red color corresponds to vegatation. A different color scheme is displayed in SFBayGreen that is closer to visually true color at the cost of slightly lower spatial resolution.

The area covered by this image is approximately 37x63 miles. A full-resolution crop of the image file is available here that shows the detail present in the full image print.