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Annual floods play an important role in the floodplain’s ecosystem, even as the water’s highs and lows have been moderated in recent decades.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Photo by by ATEC-3D, provided by Fritz Kleinschroth and Scott Winton/ETH Zürich. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published April 8, 2021
Data acquired April 1, 2021

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Terra > MODIS