NASA Shares Satellite Image of Southeast Louisiana Agriculture, Coastal Land Loss

By Tiffany Baptiste, WVUE-TV Fox 8, New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS - NASA recently shared a photo on their Instagram page of a satellite image taken of Southeast Louisiana showing the area’s agriculture and loss of coastal land. In the satellite image posted by the NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, agriculture along the Mississippi River, which NASA points out is mostly sugar cane, is shown in pink and blue.