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Irene’s Sediment in New York Harbor

In the wake of Hurricane Irene’s heavy rains, sediment filled the Hudson River and New York Harbor.


USGS/NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from Earth Explorer. Caption by Mike Carlowicz and Rob Simmon, with image interpretation from Michael Ondrusek (NOAA), Sharyn Hedrick (Smithsonian Institution), and David Ralston (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).

Published September 2, 2011
Data acquired August 31, 2011

Source:
Landsat 5 > TM