Puerto Rico Satellite View Before And After Maria

A satellite image of nighttime san juan the capital of puerto rico a week after hurricane maria hit the city shows how many electric lights are still visible from the air.

Puerto rico satellite view before and after maria. Pretty well lit especially around the coast. 24 2017 after hurricane maria knocked out the island s power grid. Above an aerial view of the damage caused by la plata river in toa alta west of san juan puerto rico on september 24 2017 following the passage of hurricane maria and. The nasa satellite images above show a side by side comparison of puerto rico before and after deadly hurricane maria hit the island.

In addition it will be used for ongoing research efforts for testing and developing standards for airborne digital imagery. N early a week after hurricane maria made landfall in puerto rico the department of energy reports that almost all of the island s 1 57 million residents are still without electricity maria. About this imagery was acquired by the noaa remote sensing division to support noaa homeland security and emergency response requirements. Before and after photos from nasa s suomi npp satellite nasa puerto rico s extensive power loss in the wake of hurricane maria has been captured in newly released images from one of nasa s.

Here is an image captured by a noaa satellite in late july well before puerto rico felt the brunt of hurricane maria s force. Nasa s damage proxy map was created using satellite data captured before and after the storm made landfall and covers an area of 105 by 60 miles around the capital city san juan. The before image on the left shows lighting around san juan. Satellite imagery shows the damage that hurricane maria has done to the power on puerto rico as the island is now blacked out.

Emerging from the eye of the storm puerto rico is broken.