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A River Renewed

A one-time pulse of water is bringing a burst of new life to the lower Colorado River.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon, using Landsat 8 data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland, with information from Karl Flessa (University of Arizona), Eloise Kendy (The Nature Conservancy), and Jeff Milliken (Bureau of Reclamation).

Published May 1, 2014
Data acquired April 29, 2013 - April 16, 2014

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI