Contaminated Rio Doce Water Flows into the Atlantic

Contaminated water has turned the Rio Doce orange-brown as it flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Contaminated Rio Doce Water Flows into the Atlantic.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published December 3, 2015
Data acquired November 30, 2015