Satellite Observes Power Outages in New Orleans

Three days after Hurricane Ida, many people in Louisiana are going without electric power due to downed power lines and damaged transmission towers.

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NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Black Marble data courtesy of Ranjay Shrestha/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Michael Carlowicz.

Published September 1, 2021
Data acquired August 31, 2021

Sources:

Landsat 8 > OLI

Suomi NPP > VIIRS

Collection:

Earth at Night