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Severe Drought in South America

Satellite gravimetry data indicates the ongoing drought is the continent's second most intense since 2002.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using GRACE data from the National Drought Mitigation Center and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published November 4, 2020
Data acquired October 26, 2020

Sources:
GRACE-FO
Landsat 8 > OLI