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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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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

Land Floods

Etosha Pan, Namibia
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Etosha Pan, Namibia

Flood water in the Oshigambo River, resulting from heavy rains in Angola, appears as a gray stream entering the northwest corner of Namibia’s Etosha Pan in this astronaut photo from March 26, 2009.

Published Apr 13, 2009

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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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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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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

Land Floods

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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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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Floods in Namibia
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Floods in Namibia

Published Mar 27, 2008

Floods

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