Toussaint L’Ouverture International Airport. Port-au-Prince, Haiti (post-earthquake)
This half-meter resolution satellite image shows the Toussaint L’Ouverture Internatio...
This half-meter resolution satellite image shows the Toussaint L’Ouverture International Airport, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, only one day after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the area on Jan. 12. The image shows some aircraft on the ground, supplies and personnel. According to news reports, massive humanitarian relief efforts are being staged from the airport. The increased level of relief support is apparent when comparing this image, taken Jan. 13, 2010 at 10:27 a.m. EST, to the image taken Jan. 16, 2010 by the GeoEye-1 satellite while flying 423 miles in space as it moved from north to south over the Caribbean at a speed of 4 miles per second.
