nasa satellite images of earth
June 16, 2008, 2:09 am
i’ve been morbidly following the floods and bad weather in the midwest. i check cnn all the time, read the des moines register and iowa city press-citizen every day, and every once in a while surf over to the weather channel (on tv, not weather.com, which is sort of more legit), just to see if they have any cool pictures/video.
like all epic disasters (the myanmar cyclone, the great northeast blackout of 2003), i always eagerly anticipate the before and after satellite images. i love nasa.
what you’re looking at:
Nearly every river and creek shown in the top false-color image of eastern Iowa was flooded on June 13, 2008. Compared to June 1 (lower image), the river systems look as if they have been outlined in black or dark blue, the color of water in this type of image. … Bare or lightly vegetated land is tan. Land that has been burned, most likely in agricultural fires, is red-brown, and plant-covered land is bright green. Cities, the most obvious of which is Des Moines, are gray. Clouds are pale blue and white.