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Hail pummeled a long stretch of crops in South Dakota in June.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, with MODIS data from the Level 1 and Atmospheres Active Distribution System (LAADS) and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland. Special thanks to Scott Bachmeier (University of Wisconsin-Madison) for first spotting the hail scar.

Published July 19, 2017
Data acquired July 2, 2017

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Landsat 8 > OLI
Collection:
Applied Sciences