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Kenya’s Ewaso Nyiro River Dries

Severe drought gripped much of East Africa in 2009, turning a riverbed into a pale tan ribbon of sand.


NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published October 17, 2009
Data acquired September 27, 2009

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EO-1 > ALI