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Satellite image depicting the border between Haiti (left) and the Dominican Republic (right) The island has four distinct ecoregions. The Hispaniolan moist forests ecoregion covers approximately 50% of the island, especially the northern and eastern portions, predominantly in the lowlands but extending up to 2,100 meters (6,900 ft) elevation.
True color image of the Earth from space. This image is a composite image collected over 16 days by the MODIS sensor on NASA’s Terra satellite. NASA Earth science satellite fleet as of September 2020, planned through 2023. Earth observation satellite missions developed by the ESA as of 2019. Earth observation satellites are Earth-orbiting ...
At around 1 a.m. CDT, the center of Francine was passing northwest of New Orleans. ... as seen in a color adjusted satellite image, at 2:30 p.m. Sept. 11, 2024.
On Monday, August 29, 2005, there were over 50 failures of the levees and flood walls protecting New Orleans, Louisiana, and its suburbs following passage of Hurricane Katrina. The failures caused flooding in 80% of New Orleans and all of St. Bernard Parish. In New Orleans alone, 134,000 housing units—70% of all occupied units—suffered ...
Over 150,000 homes and businesses were without power in Louisiana on Thursday, one day after the center of the storm crashed onto shore in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, as a Category 2 storm ...
September 10, 2024 at 5:45 AM. Francine strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane Tuesday evening in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm is forecast to make landfall in Louisiana on Wednesday afternoon or ...
e. Hurricane Katrina was a devastating tropical cyclone that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $186.3 billion (2022 USD) in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area. Katrina was the twelfth tropical cyclone, the fifth hurricane, and the third major hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane ...
It was posted in July to the website of NASA's Earth Observatory. The observatory's Earth Matters program posts a "puzzling satellite image" each month and challenges readers to "tell us where it ...