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A new database details two decades of damage swaths left after winds and hail pulverize crops and vegetation.  


NASA Earth Observatory image by Michala Garrison, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published August 23, 2023
Data acquired June 18 - July 24, 2023

Sources:
Landsat 9 > OLI-2
Terra > MODIS
Collection:
Science in Action