Picture Shows True Scale of Tornado Trail

In a clear case of  the power of pictures in clarifying things in seconds here’s the official NASA picture of the tornado trail that caused death and destruction in Massachusett last week. The picture shows part of  the trail of the 39 miles the tornado stayed on the ground and its widest point at 0,5 miles. The picture was captured on the 5th of June by the Thematic Mapper on the Landsat 5 satellite.