This NASA video says about itself:
NASA Surveys Hurricane Damage to Puerto Rico’s Forests
11 July 2018
From NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center in the USA:
NASA surveys hurricane damage to Puerto Rico’s forests
July 11, 2018
On Sept. 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria barreled across Puerto Rico with winds of up to 155 miles per hour and battering rain that flooded towns, knocked out communications networks and destroyed the power grid. In the rugged central mountains and the lush northeast, Maria unleashed its fury as fierce winds completely defoliated the tropical forests and broke and uprooted trees. Heavy rainfall triggered thousands of landslides that mowed over swaths of steep mountainsides.
In April a team of NASA scientists traveled to Puerto Rico with airborne instrumentation to survey damages from Hurricane Maria to the island’s forests.
“From the air, the scope of the hurricane’s damages was startling”, said NASA Earth scientist…
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