Published June 6, 2011

NASA's Landsat 5 satellite captured this image of tornado destruction. (Jesse Allen/NASA Earth Observatory)

Earlier today NASA released the above image, providing a from-space viewpoint of the path of destruction left behind after last week’s most violent tornado.

In a tweet, NASA referred to the “scar across western [Massachusetts],” as the deadly tornado that first touched down near Springfield cut east, moving across Interstate 84 and parts of Sturbridge.

NASA captured the image yesterday — four days after the storms — from its Landsat 5 satellite.