ISS Photos of Danube Flooding near Vác, Hungary

Aug
18, 2002 high-resolution image (79 Kb)
Aug
23, 2002 high-resolution image (134 Kb)

These images
showing some of the devastating European flooding were captured
by crewmembers onboard the International Space Station. The photographs
show flooding around the Danube Bend area just north of Budapest,
Hungary near the city of Vác. The flood peaked in Budapest on Aug.
19, 2002 at about 8.5 meters (28 feet), exceeding the previous 1965
flood record. The images show the waters inundating farmland in
the flood plain and then receding.

Astronaut photographs
ISS005-E-10000
and ISS005-E-10926
were taken on Aug. 18 and 23, 2002 using a digital camera onboard
the International Space Station. They were provided by the Earth
Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory at Johnson Space Center.
Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed
at the NASA-JSC Gateway to Astronaut
Photography of Earth.