911 ASH: The Scope of the Smoke & Dust

Smoke Spreads from the Fires in Both Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City (Photo by Kevin Ready)

Smoke Plume: World Trade Center, New York City NASA Sept. 11-12, 2001
Images of New York City taken from the International Space Station Sept. 11 - 12, 2001 click on photo for a larger view


The three images below are from the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Terra Satellite Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Winds were almost due North at the time, trailing the smoke plume south over New Jersey.

Band 1: 620 - 670 nm	Band 2: 841 - 876 nm

False-color image	True-Color Image, taken Sept. 12, 2001

More pictures of the smoke plumes from space available at BBC