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Data acquired April 29, 1986 946 x 710 JPEG
Data acquired April 29, 1986 25 MB - TIFF
The abandoned city of Pripyat, home to the infamous Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, lies on the Pripyat River in northern Ukraine, near the Belarus border. Three days after the April 26, 1986, nuclear accident, Landsat 5 acquired this image of the region. The power plant explosion and ensuing fire released highly radioactive nuclear fallout into the atmosphere, affecting regions tens to hundreds of miles from the plant. This false color Landsat 5 image uses TM bands 7,4,2.
NASA GSFC Landsat/LDCM EPO Team
Published May 21, 2012 Data acquired April 29, 1986