Orbit 17 +++ Space and beyond » shuttle radar http://www.orbit17.com galaxies, science, exploration, astronomy (blog) Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:45:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 NASA helps Haiti disaster relief efforts http://www.orbit17.com/nasa-helps-haiti-disaster-relief-efforts/ http://www.orbit17.com/nasa-helps-haiti-disaster-relief-efforts/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:25:37 +0000 galaxy17 http://www.orbit17.com/?p=434 Haiti shuttle radar image from 2000

An image of Haiti from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission in 2000 Credit: NASA

NASA is helping provide information to support disaster recovery efforts in Haiti in the wake of Tuesday’s killer earthquake.

According to the space agency, two NASA Earth monitoring satellites — the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, and NASA’s Earth Observing-1 ,or EO-1 — are beaming down images of areas hardest hit by the quake. Before-and-after pictures will be used to help damage assessment and recovery efforts.

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