luca pietranera
Passionate about satellite imagery
Safeen prestige ship in Hormuz strait
by luca pietranera
Radar (SAR) images collected by Sentinel-1(EU Copernicus) show that Safeen Prestige container ship has been stationary in the same position since March 4th. The radar image was collected on March 16th Likely the ship was hit a first time on March 4th and then hit again on March 18th (ref. optical images)
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Smoke from Fujairah port infrastructure
by luca pietranera
Image from NASA Terra March 15th 2026
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March 18th: Fire in the Hormuz Strait
by luca pietranera
Infrared image collected by Sentinel-2C (Copernicus data) on March 18 07:02 UTC over the strait shows the same burning vessel as seen on low resolution images on March 19th
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Asalouyeh (Iran) Gas plant
by luca pietranera
Infrared image collected by Sentinel-2B (EU Copernicus) on the Iran coastal gas plant. It is not so easy to discriminate between "normal" gas flares and fires due to shelling. Some big fires with consistent amount of brown-black smoke do not look like gas flares
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Mina al Ahmadi (Kuwait) oil refinery
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Infrared image collected by Sentinel-2C (EU Copernicus) on March 20 07:41 UTC over Kuwait oil refinery. There are not visible damages or fires apart from flares
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Yanbu (KSA) Oil refinery, March 19th
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Infrared image collected by Sentinel-2C (EU Copernicus) at 08:13 UTC over Yanbu oil refinery Apart from several flares, one fire with heavy smoke looks like a possible strike damage
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Smoke in the strait
by luca pietranera
March 19th morning: Smoke plume in the Hormuz Strait NASA Terra mission, MODIS sensor
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Fire in the strait
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March 19th 2026: 9:12 UTC, three hours after Terra passage. Infrared channels of VIIRS sensor, onboard NOAA-21 satellite show an ongoing fire (small red dot) in the Hormuz strait
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Iran attacks UAE
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Fujairah still burning from March 15th, new attack to Dubai Airport NASA Terra mission, MODIS sensor
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Attack to Salalah, Oman
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March 13th Sentinel-2 Image (Copernicus Sentinel data) The strike occurred on March 12th Infrared bands combination highlight the fire area
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