Diamond Member SpaceMan 0 Posted Friday at 04:01 AM Diamond Member Share Posted Friday at 04:01 AM Earth Observatory This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Cyclone Rains Spur Papua New… This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Topics This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up More Content This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up About This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Sept. 24, 2025 April 20, 2026 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up NASA Earth Observatory/Michala Garrison This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up NASA Earth Observatory/Michala Garrison Sept. 24, 2025April 20, 2026 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up NASA Earth Observatory/Michala Garrison This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up NASA Earth Observatory/Michala Garrison Sept. 24, 2025 April 20, 2026 CurtainToggle2-Up Image Details During a break in the clouds, the This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up (Operational Land Imager) on This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up captured an image of landslide fallout in the forested Gazelle district of East New Britain on April 20, 2026 (right). A second image from Landsat 9 shows the same area on September 24, 2025 (left), before the landslides. Since much of Papua New Guinea lies close to the equator where the This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up is weak, the risk of This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up striking the island nation is relatively low, especially in its northern areas. Nevertheless, This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up sea surface temperatures and atmospheric conditions favorable to storm formation brought powerful This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up dangerously close to the islands of Bougainville, New Britain, and New Ireland in April 2026, fueling This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . The heavy rains saturated steep terrain in the Gazelle district of East New Britain, triggering landslides on and around April 9 that led to several deaths, according to This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . The This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up satellite captured an image of the fresh landslide scars cutting through the dense tropical forests in the Baining Mountains on April 20, 2026. The Toriu River and other sediment-laden waterways are visible to the east of the landslides. The landslides appear as light-brown swaths of exposed soil and debris extending north toward a nearby river valley, contrasting with the surrounding green vegetation and scattered white clouds. A second image from Landsat 9 shows the same area on September 24, 2025, before the landslides. Maila was notable for its intensity—reaching Category 4 strength on This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up (Category 3 on the This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up used for U.S. hurricanes)—and also for its slow movement near Papua New Guinea. Instead of passing quickly through the region, Maila lingered, allowing rainbands to repeatedly strike East New Britain. Satellite-based This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up from NASA’s This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up (GPM) mission indicate that hundreds of millimeters of rain likely fell across the region in less than a week. NASA’s This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up (LHASA) model uses precipitation estimates from GPM along with slope, soil, and land cover data to identify areas where rainfall is likely to This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . During the height of the storm, LHASA highlighted parts of East New Britain—including the Baining Mountains—as having an This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up of slope failure. NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . Story by Adam Voiland. 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