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From Mine District to Lake District

Once a center for mining brown coal, Central Germany is slowly transforming its pits to pools.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kasha Patel.

Published March 11, 2021
Data acquired April 29, 1987 - April 23, 2020

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 8 > OLI