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The devastation caused by Hurricane Ian can even be seen from space

2022-10-10T10:16:23.013Z


It was one of the deadliest hurricanes in Florida history. You can also see from the universe what destruction »Ian« has caused.


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Satellite image: The water masses brought by Hurricane "Ian" tore thousands of tons of mud into the Gulf of Mexico

Photo: NASA Earth Observatory

As if everything had been shaken up like a snow globe, this is how local residents describe the devastating consequences of Hurricane "Ian", which caused severe damage, especially in Florida.

At least 101 people died.

Just over a week and a half ago, on September 28, "Ian" hit the southwest coast of Florida as a category 4 out of 5 hurricane and swept across the country with wind speeds of up to 240 kilometers per hour.

But not only the wind caused considerable destruction, but also water that "Ian" brought with it.

Storm surges, unrelenting downpours and floods swept across Florida.

The water masses have left clear traces, as documented by satellite images from NASA.

Colorful whirlpools can still be seen off the coast days after the disaster.

The turquoise areas show sediment that "Ian" churned up from the seabed before hitting land.

The incredible amounts of water that made their way towards the coast after the storm washed mud and debris into the Gulf of Mexico, turning the water brown.

Footage from before and after the hurricane shows its aftermath particularly clearly (slider above): On the left is a satellite image of Florida before "Ian" made landfall.

The image on the right, taken days after the storm, shows tons of sediment still pouring into the sea.

The images come from NASA's Modis spectroradiometer on board the Earth observation satellite "Terra", which has been in orbit around the Earth since 1999.

The International Space Station (ISS) also clearly showed how badly Hurricane Ian had churned up the Gulf of Mexico.

US astronaut Bob Hines snapped a photo of the region from the ISS.

"This image shows the Florida Peninsula getting rid of all the water that Hurricane Ian dumped on it," he wrote on Twitter.

Previously, Hines was able to watch the storm brewing over the US state.

"This storm is HUGE," he wrote on September 28.

The ISS astronauts could have observed exactly how the hurricane hit land.

Hines has been on the ISS since late April and is scheduled to return to Earth in October.

Only on Friday did four other astronauts reach the space station: NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann and her NASA colleague Josh Cassada, as well as Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata and Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina.

The "Crew-5" mission is considered politically explosive because, for the first time since the start of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, Nasa astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut docked at the ISS from American soil.

The launch was scheduled for October 3, but had to be postponed due to Hurricane Ian.

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Source: spiegel

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