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Water travels from the Angolan Highlands to Botswana each year, usually arriving in July. In 2012, the water showed up early, and overflowed into the Savuti River.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Michon Scott with information from Frank Eckardt, University of Cape Town; and Guido van Langenhove, Hydrological Services Namibia.

Published June 5, 2012
Data acquired May 26, 2012

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