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Tracking Debris from the Tohoku Tsunami

Computer models describe the projected path of objects washed out into the Pacific Ocean by the March 2011 tsunami in Japan.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using model data courtesy of Jan Hafner, International Pacific Research Center. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.

Published April 4, 2012
Data acquired April 3, 2012

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