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Parting the Sea to Save Venice

The waters that once protected Venice now threaten it. A complex engineering project is being installed to beat back the tide.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Laura Rocchio.

Published March 25, 2014
Data acquired June 20, 2000 - September 4, 2013

Sources:
Landsat 7 > ETM+
Landsat 8 > OLI