ОписHobet Mountaintop mine West Virginia 2009-06-02.jpg
English: Below the densely forested slopes of southern West Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains is a layer cake of thin coal seams. To uncover this coal profitably, mining companies engineer large—sometimes very large—surface mines using strip mining methods.
This image of a surface mine in Boone County, West Virginia from 2009.
Based on data from NASA’s Landsat 5 satellite, this natural-color (photo-like) image document the Hobet mine in 2009.
The natural landscape of the area is dark green, forested mountains, creased by streams and indented by hollows.
The active mining areas appear off-white.
Areas being reclaimed with vegetation appear light green.
A pipeline roughly bisects the images from north to south.
The town of Madison, lower right, lies along the banks of the Coal River.
Употреба НАСА-их логотипа и емблема је ограничена Америчким законом 14 CFR 1221.
НАСА-ин сајт хостује велики број слика Совјетске/Руске свемирске агенције и других не-Америчких свемирских агенција. Ове слике нису нужно у јавном власништву.
{{Information |Description={{en|Below the densely forested slopes of southern West Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains is a layer cake of thin coal seams. To uncover this coal profitably, mining companies engineer large—sometimes very large—surface min