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Tsunami waves battered the coasts of several Tongan islands and ash blankets everything.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and ALOS-2 data from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency/JAXA and the Earth Observatory of Singapore Remote Sensing Lab. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published January 28, 2022
Data acquired May 11, 2020 - January 25, 2022

Sources:
ALOS-2 > PALSAR-2
Landsat 8 > OLI