When the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded 30 years ago, on April 26, 1986, Landsat 5 was the first civilian satellite to confirm the disaster near Pripyat, Ukraine, in the agricultural heartland of the Soviet Union.

2016年4月29日 · When the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded 30 years ago, on April 26, 1986, Landsat 5 was the first civilian satellite to confirm the disaster near Pripyat, Ukraine, in the agricultural heartland of the Soviet Union.

The Landsat 5 image from April 29, 1986, was the first civilian satellite image of the accident. The data from Landsat were used to help confirm that an explosion had happened at Chernobyl and that the plant had been shut down.

Chernobyl, Ukraine. On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear power accident occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the Ukrainian-Belarus border. Toxic radionuclides like Cs137 and Sr90 contaminated an area of 155,000 square kilometers in what is …

The data from Landsat were used to help confirm that an explosion had happened at Chornobyl and that the plant had been shut down. Chornobyl 1986: the first satellite picture of the disaster...

View of the Chernobyl Nuclear power after the explosion on April 26 1986 in Chernobyl:,Ukraine. Chernobyl: first pictures after the nuclear disaster. In this aerial view two partially-constructed and abandoned cooling towers stand as the new enclosure …

2019年6月19日 · This is a satellite view of Chernobyl Nuclear power plant and surroundings in Google Earth. You can view the latest view of the ghost town of Chernobyl and P...

1 天前 · The strike on Chernobyl, about two hours north of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and the recent increase in military activity around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in a Russian-occupied zone ...

Satellite Views of Chernobyl Systems such as Google Earth can give you a great in-depth view of the landscape of Chernobyl, before your Chernobyl Tour. Viewing satellite imagery will identify the areas, buildings, streets, factories, sports complexes and more, but without local knowledge it may still be hard to decipher what is what.

The abandoned city of Pripyat, home to the infamous Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, lies on the Pripyat River in northern Ukraine, near the Belarus boarder. Three days after the April 26, 1986, nuclear accident, Landsat 5 acquired this image of the region.