Acquired on January 18, 2010, and December 23, 2009, these false-color images show changes brought by heavy rains to southwestern Queensland. Water appears electric blue, clouds appear sky blue, vegetation appears bright green, and land appears pink-brown.
These false-color images of southwestern Queensland on March 14, 2010 (top), February 17, 2010 (middle), and March 16, 2009 (bottom), reveal the extent of recent, severe flooding.
The Paraná River is South America’s second largest, and an important transportation route for landlocked cities in Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil.
Acquired on April 10, 2010, and and March 7, 2009, these natural-color images show changes in a central Australian saltpan, Lake Frome. In 2010, water has seeped into the salt lake, leaving standing water in some areas and muddying much of the ground surface.
Water flowed through Australia’s Channel Country on February 18, 2009, as seasonal rivers and wetlands filled in response to seasonal rains in Australia's north.
The wide, multi-island zone in the Rio Negro (Black River) shown in this astronaut photograph from September 2, 2006, is one of two, long “archipelagoes” upstream of the city of Manaus (not shown) in central Amazonia. Sixty kilometers of the total 120-kilemeter length of this archipelago appear in this image.