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Mud from the Andes Carried by the Amazon

Most of the sediment that flows into the Atlantic Ocean from the mouth of the river comes from thousands of miles upstream.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published October 2, 2020
Data acquired July 29, 2020

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Terra > MODIS