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Photos: Google Earth showcases natural disasters

The planet's best and worst, as seen by ESA's satellites

Tags: google, google earth

By Gemma Simpson

Published: 17 November 2006 16:10 GMT


Google Earth and the European Space Agency (ESA) are showcasing the planet with 130 satellite images added to the planetary prowler from ESA's satellite image library.

Included are images of volcanic eruptions, dust storms and changing ice glaciers from ESA's satellites.

Above is the daunting sight of Hurricane Katrina, as seen by ESA's Envisat satellite, off southern Florida, when it was category one on the Saffir-Simpson scale measuring hurricane intensity on 25 August 2005.

Photo credit: European Space Agency


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