Sensing How Much the Earth Moved in Nepal

Using satellite radar sensors, scientists have been able to detect the rising and falling of the landscape in the Himalayas caused by the Gorkha earthquake.

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NASA Earth Observatory map by Joshua Stevens using information produced by DLR's Remote Sensing Technology Institute, based on modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2015) processed by the European Space Agency. Caption by Mike Carlowicz, with thanks to Fernando Rodriguez Gonzalez and Thomas Fritz (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) and Eric Fielding (NASA JPL).

Published May 14, 2015
Data acquired April 17 - 29, 2015

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Sentinel-1A