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Data acquired August 14, 2008 540 x 405 JPEG
Data acquired August 14, 2008 2000 x 1500 2 MB - JPEG
Data acquired August 14, 2008 2000 x 2000 9 MB - GeoTIFF
Data acquired August 14, 2008 54 KB - KML/KMZ
Data acquired August 14, 2008 JPEG
In the second week of August 2008, the western Oklahoma Panhandle got just enough rain to ease the region’s drought status from “exceptional” to “extreme“ according to the U.S. Drought Monitor report from August 12. The scattered August rains may be responsible for some of the vegetation patterns recorded by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite in this image from August 14, 2008.
NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey.
Published August 20, 2008 Data acquired August 14, 2008