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Etosha Pan, Namibia
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Etosha Pan, Namibia

The salt-covered, dry lakebed is at the center of Namibia’s largest wildlife park and a major tourist attraction.

Published May 14, 2012

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Etosha Pan Refills
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Etosha Pan Refills

For much of the year, the salt pan is bone dry. But when the wet season brings abundant rains, the large, shallow basin becomes a temporary oasis.

Published Jan 21, 2020

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Oshigambo River and Etosha Pan, Namibia
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Oshigambo River and Etosha Pan, Namibia

Etosha Pan in northern Namibia is a large, dry lakebed in the Kalahari Desert. The 120-kilometer-long (75-mile-long) lake and its surroundings are protected as one of Namibia’s largest wildlife parks. About 16,000 years ago, when ice sheets were melting across Northern Hemisphere land masses, a wet climate phase in southern Africa filled Etosha Lake. Today, Etosha Pan is seldom seen with even a thin sheet of water covering the salt pan. This astronaut photograph shows the point where the Oshigambo River runs into the salt lake during an unusually wet summer in southern Africa, in March 2006.

Published May 1, 2006

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Floods in Namibia
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Floods in Namibia

Published Mar 18, 2008

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Flooding in Angola and Namibia
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Flooding in Angola and Namibia

Acquired on March 9, 2011, and March 10, 2010, these false-color images show flooding along the Angola-Namibia border in 2011.

Published Mar 10, 2011

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Flooding in Northern Namibia
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Flooding in Northern Namibia

Acquired March 20, 2011, and March 17, 2010, these false-color images show evidence of unusually heavy precipitation in 2011.

Published Mar 24, 2011

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Cycles of Wet and Dry in Etosha Pan
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Cycles of Wet and Dry in Etosha Pan

Repeated pooling and evaporation of water built this expansive salt pan in northern Namibia.

Published Sep 14, 2020

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Flooding and Drought in Etosha Pan
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Flooding and Drought in Etosha Pan

Acquired at the end of July in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012, these false-color images show changing conditions in Namibia’s Etosha Pan.

Published Sep 2, 2012

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Salty Botswana
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Salty Botswana

Makgadikgadi Pan is one of the largest salt flats in the world.

Published Jul 1, 2019

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Receding Floods around Ondjiva, Angola
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Receding Floods around Ondjiva, Angola

Acquired May 13, 2011, and March 30, 2011, these false-color images show receding floods around the city of Ondjiva in southern Angola.

Published May 28, 2011

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Flooding across Northern Namibia
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Flooding across Northern Namibia

Acquired April 12, 2011, and April 22, 2010, these false-color images show differences in rainy season conditions in northern Namibia.

Published Apr 12, 2011

Land Floods

Flood Waters Reach Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre
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Flood Waters Reach Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre

The usually dry, inland lake in Australia came alive with color after flood waters arrived in the late summer of 2017.

Published Feb 27, 2017

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A Surge of Blue and Green in Australia
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A Surge of Blue and Green in Australia

Big rain events in Queensland can alter the landscape for months as water—and then a carpet of vegetation—moves toward Lake Eyre.

Published Apr 3, 2019

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A Pulse of Green in Australia
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A Pulse of Green in Australia

Flood water from northern Queensland drained toward a large basin in Australia’s interior—painting the desert landscape green.

Published May 4, 2018

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Lake Eyre, South Australia
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Lake Eyre, South Australia

Published Mar 24, 2003

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