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Dramatic Flooding in Eastern Africa

Heavy rains have flooded the Shebelle River and affected hundreds of thousands of people in Somalia and Kenya.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and soil moisture data courtesy of JPL and the SMAP Science Team. Story by Kasha Patel.

Published May 11, 2018
Data acquired May 9, 2018

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
SMAP