A Lagoon in the Desert

A popular place for sandboarding, Huacachina is the only natural desert oasis in South America.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Photograph by Havardtl and used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Story by Kasha Patel.

Published December 26, 2020
Data acquired August 15, 2020

Sources:

Landsat 8 > OLI

Photograph