Hobet Mine Satellite image, 2015

The Hobet-21 coal mine in the Appalachian Mountains of southern West Virginia was one of the State’s largest mountaintop removal mines. Mine footprints can be visible with remote sensing and may change through time as mining activities progress.  This image shows the Hobet-21 mine in 2015, when mining ended and when some vegetation recovery was visible from Landsat imagery as light green [Satellite image by National Aeronautics and Space Administration].