DES MOINES, Iowa - Iowa farmers are dealing with widespread crop damage from a high wind storm called a Derecho, earlier this week.
Ten-million acres of crops were flattened, in a wide path from Des Moines in Central Iowa through Cedar Rapids, in Eastern Iowa.
The damage caused by Monday’s Derecho is actually visible from space.
Photos from NASA satellites show the landscape of Iowa’s cropland before and after the storm, with views from July 24 and August 11, the day after the storm, for comparison.