NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS NASA Link: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-081&rn=news.xml&rst=2939 March 15, 2011 A new before-and-after image pair from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA’s Terra spacecraft shows a region of Japan ‘s northeastern coast, northeast of the city of Sendai , which was affected by the March 11, 2011 tsunami