The $100 billion International Space Station is the product of five different space agencies representing 15 countries including Japan, which is a major partner in the project. "Through a thin haze of clouds, flooding was still discernible south of Sendai days after the massive earthquake and resulting tsunami," NASA officials said of the image. The Ishinomaki Bay can also be seen coated in oil, which leaked from oil refineries damaged by the earthquake and tsunami.Īnother photo shows the coastline of Sendai and other nearby regions as they appeared yesterday (March 14) from a slightly lower altitude of about 215 miles (345 km). "Water left by the tsunami surrounds the crisscrossing runways at Matsushima Airport." "Both agricultural fields and settled areas are submerged by muddy water in this image," NASA officials said in a statement. The image shows Japan's Ishinomaki Bay, Naruse river and part of the city of Higashimatsushima. The March 13 photo captured by the astronauts shows how the region north of the coastal city of Sendai appeared from the station's altitude of 220 miles (354 kilometers). "Our thoughts are with our friends in Japan," Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli, one of the three astronauts staying at the station, wrote in a Twitter post on March 13 – the same day one of the newly released photos was taken. High-resolution photos taken from the International Space Station show some of the areas hit the hardest by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck the northeastern coast of Japan.
Astronauts in space have snapped photos from orbit of the effects of the massive earthquake and tsunami that have devastated Japan.
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