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Sixty years ago, operation Castle Bravo unleashed the unexpectedly potent power of a hydrogen bomb on a small island chain in the western Pacific.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Mike Carlowicz, with David K. Lynch.

Published March 1, 2014
Data acquired August 19, 2013

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Collection:
International Parks and UNESCO Sites