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November 22, 2013 05:02 am GMT
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Satellite Images Show Typhoon Haiyan's Devastation
New NASA satellite images of the Philippines shed more light on Typhoon Haiyan's widespread impact on Tacloban, the capital of the country's Leyte Province.
The two photos were taken from 438 miles above Earth by NASA's ASTER satellite. The first is from Nov. 15 of this year, just days after the storm swept through Tacloban, and the second is from April 3, 2004. Both pictures are false colored to show how much of the land is covered with vegetation, urban sprawl or bare ground
Plant-covered land is red, urbanized territory is silver-white, tan signifies bare earth and water is colored black and blue. The two images are of the same location, yet appear dramatically different. Read more...
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