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Lush landscapes turned from green to brown after being battered by the powerful storm.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Hurricane Irma Turns Caribbean Islands Brown .

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published September 12, 2017
Data acquired August 25 - September 10, 2017

Sources:: Aqua > MODIS; Landsat 8 > OLI; Terra > MODIS