Scars of the Somme
Scars of the Somme
Scars of the Somme
The Somme River meanders through an idyllic rural landscape of northern France. Even the name "Somme" comes from a Celtic word meaning "tranquility". But between July and November 1916, the area around this river was anything but calm, as the British and French armies fought against the German armies in the Battle of the Somme of World War I. . With more than a million casualties, it remains one of the bloodiest battles in history.
This image, acquired on October 21, 2018, with the Operational Earth Imager in Landsat 8It shows part of the area around the Somme and Ancre rivers where the historic battle took place. It has been 100 years since the end of the war and Armistice Day (now Veterans Day in the United States), but the landscape of the field still has visible reminders of the battle.
The battle was fought from lines of trenches dug into the ground. Some of the trenches, as well as the craters of the explosives, are still visible from the air. One of these craters, the Lochnagar Crater, is large enough to be visible from space, and appears in this image as a small point near the city of Albert. The crater is the result of explosives packed into a long tunnel in the ground, detonated on July 1, 1916, by British forces. The explosion produced a crater that measured 100 meters wide and 21 meters deep.
The violent battle is not forgotten. An artist produced 19,240 hidden figures, the number of dead on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, to be displayed in a London park this year.
Image of the NASA Earth Observatory by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the United States Geological Survey. Story of Kathryn Hansen.
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