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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

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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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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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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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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Floods in Namibia
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Floods in Namibia

Published Mar 18, 2008

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Water Levels Still Dropping Near São Paulo
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Water Levels Still Dropping Near São Paulo

Satellite imagery shows reservoirs still perilously low in the midst of Brazil’s rainy season.

Published Mar 7, 2015

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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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Water Levels Rise on Shasta Lake
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Water Levels Rise on Shasta Lake

After four years of shrinking due to drought, the largest reservoir in California got a much-needed boost from El Niño-fueled winter precipitation.

Published Apr 7, 2016

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Tracking Water for the Navajo Nation
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Tracking Water for the Navajo Nation

A new web tool designed by NASA applied scientists could help the tribe anticipate and respond to drought.

Published Apr 20, 2020

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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

Drought in the Klamath River Basin
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Drought in the Klamath River Basin

For more than 100 years, groups in the western United States have fought over water. During the 1880s, sheep ranchers and cattle ranchers argued over drinking water for their livestock on the high plains. In 1913, the city of Los Angeles began to draw water away from small agricultural communities in Owen Valley, leaving a dusty dry lake bed. In the late 1950s, construction of the Glen Canyon Dam catalyzed the American environmental movement. Today, farmers are fighting fishermen, environmentalists, and Native American tribes over the water in the Upper Klamath River Basin. The Landsat 7 satellite, launched by NASA and operated by the U.S. Geological Survey, documented an extreme drought in the area along the California/Oregon border in the spring of 2001.

Published Sep 8, 2001

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Floods along the Yangtze River
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Floods along the Yangtze River

Acquired June 27, 2011, and May 28, 2011, these false-color images compare conditions along the Yangtze River before and after torrential rains.

Published Jun 28, 2011

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Floods in Chad
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Floods in Chad

Published Sep 21, 2007

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