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Flooding on the Zambezi River

Seasonal rain sends the Zambezi River spilling into broad floodplains in eastern Namibia every year.


NASA images courtesy of the LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response team. Caption by Adam Voiland, with information from Robert Brackenridge (Dartmouth Flood Observatory) and Paulina Mufeti (Namibia Ministry of Agriculture, Water, and Forestry).

Published May 15, 2014
Data acquired May 13, 2014

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Terra > MODIS
Collection:
MODIS Rapid Response