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Mississippi River Well Below Normal
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Published August 21, 2012
Coming off of the extreme floods of 2011, the river was approaching historic lows in the summer of 2012 near Memphis and along much of its lower reaches.
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Water: A Precious Resource in the Yanqi Basin
Published August 18, 2012
Water from the Kaidu River made it possible to turn part of the Taklamakan Desert into an oasis for agriculture, but it has also disturbed the water table.
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Landsat Shows Land Use Around Portland
Published August 2, 2012
Satellites help land managers and city planners track city growth and ecosystem health around Portland, Oregon.
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The Many Hues of London
Published August 1, 2012
While a typical digital camera takes one picture of a scene based on information from the visible spectrum, Landsat generates multiple views of everything it images.
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Ouachita Mountains
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Published July 23, 2012
Landsat images the Earth’s surface in a series of scenes 185 kilometers (115 miles) wide. Landsat 7 is currently collecting data, but suffered a failure in 2003 that leaves gaps between scan lines.
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Pinta Island
Published July 21, 2012
The island is a small but mighty example of compelling Galápagos biology.
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Rondônia, Brazil
Published July 19, 2012
These Landsat images of Amazonian deforestation in Rondônia, a state in Western Brazil, provided conclusive, impartial evidence of the increasing loss of global tropical rainforests.
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