Aftermath of World Trade Center Attack

    This true-color image was taken by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) aboard the Landsat 7 satellite on September 12, 2001, at roughly 11:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time.

    Image courtesy USGS Landsat 7 team, at the EROS Data Center.

    Credit: NASA Earth Observatory

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    1. ★

      Johannes_wl, giuvine eroA, PerceivedConceptions, llacigart, and 197 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. They call me Mike D. (21 months ago | reply)

      10 years later and the images can still send chills up my spine

    3. ♫ Lion ♫ (21 months ago | reply)

      Wow :O

    4. TheAnaspot (21 months ago | reply)

      Breathtaking. Thanks for uploading it!

    5. dodagp (21 months ago | reply)

      Great share!

    6. mariorei (21 months ago | reply)

      Speechless.

    7. █ fo112 █ (21 months ago | reply)

      Sad!

    8. Park Doc (21 months ago | reply)

      Powerful image. It looks very appropriately like a bleeding wound.

    9. blackcattips (21 months ago | reply)

      I drew a picture yesterday of that day and how i felt...

      www.blackcattips.com/sketches_n_such_vol2/wee k_13_16/twin...

    10. anadah (21 months ago | reply)

      still breathtaking after so long...

    11. outspoken (21 months ago | reply)

      look at all that smog coming from jersey!

    12. petrus.13 (21 months ago | reply)

      molto interessante

    13. brdonovan (21 months ago | reply)

      whoa

    14. rhanelt (21 months ago | reply)

      WOW. What a disturbing image.

    15. K)) [deleted] (21 months ago | reply)

      Very nice!

    16. Cliff's Photography, Thank you for all visits!! (21 months ago | reply)

      Awesome photo!! Unforgettable sad memories.

    17. Sir Francis Canker Photography © (21 months ago | reply)

      Still impresses me..

    18. PhotoSenseDatum (21 months ago | reply)

      wow! Great image !!!
      Sad memories...

    19. shutterbroke (21 months ago | reply)

      Thanks for the upload.

    20. jacsonquerubin (21 months ago | reply)

      sad day =/

    21. OnceAndFutureLaura (21 months ago | reply)

      so stark.

    22. ryle971 (21 months ago | reply)

      Bad Day....

    23. Ray Radlein (21 months ago | reply)

      Feels weird and slightly creepy marking this as a "favorite," but it's a spectacular picture of an important occasion.

      Also, LANDSAT images sure seem to have gotten sharper since I sat through the LANDSAT course at NASA/ERL in Slidell back in the '70s.

    24. Helefran (21 months ago | reply)

      We shall not forget.

    25. Σταύρος (21 months ago | reply)

      than u 4 sharing !

    26. postertime (21 months ago | reply)

      Wow !!! Great Shot !!!
      .

    27. /\ \/\/ /\ (20 months ago | reply)

      interesting

    28. Greg Foster Photography (20 months ago | reply)

      speechless.

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    31. Canuck with a camera (8 months ago | reply)

      So many emotions come flooding back today.

    32. Orpinbleu (8 months ago | reply)

      Wow! Magnifique et intéressante image

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    33. sgrazied (8 months ago | reply)

      a new point of view of a soooo mediatic tragedy! never saw it before.

    34. Derek_Custer (8 months ago | reply)

      I have also not seen this before, an interesting perspective.

    35. Yannis_H (8 months ago | reply)

      wow... history alive!

    36. HdB1973 (8 months ago | reply)

      impressive pic!

    37. PhotoSenseDatum (8 months ago | reply)

      thanks!!!

      EXCELLENT! seen in
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    38. GEO M I (8 months ago | reply)

      a very sad day

    39. singsallthetime (8 months ago | reply)

      never has such an act affected so many . so sad

    40. Blue States (8 months ago | reply)

      Where would our country be now if we had gone to prayer instead of war.

    41. WorldofArun (8 months ago | reply)

      very wwell captured...

    42. Jessica Kirste (8 months ago | reply)

      Such a sad day... amazing it could be seen in satelite.

    43. Pyrrhos (8 months ago | reply)

      Amazing !

    44. moya sanchez (8 months ago | reply)

      Sobrecogedor instantanea , un dia que por desgracia a nadie se le debe de olvidar, saludos

    45. nnnnaked (7 months ago | reply)

      even after all this time i think it bought nothing but shame to those evil people who orchestrated that day, and how can anythink their god will reward them with 10 virgin wifes is behond me , A god wants to welcome good people or so we are told not murderers of anykind

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