Radar image of the New York City metropolitan area. North is toward the upper right. Light blue areas correspond to dense urban development, green areas to moderately vegetated zones and black areas to bodies of water. The island of Manhattan appears in the center of the image. The Hudson River is the black strip that runs from the left edge to the upper right corner of the image. It separates New Jersey, in the upper left of the image, from New York. The Atlantic Ocean is at the bottom of the image where two barrier islands along the southern shore of Long Island are also visible. The Long Island Sound, separating Long Island from Connecticut, is the dark area right of the center of the image. This image was acquired by the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/ X-SAR) aboard the space shuttle Endeavour on October 10, 1994.