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Traffic Jam on the Suez Canal

Hundreds of ships have been left idling around the key shipping route. Nature played a role in solving the problem.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin and Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and VIIRS day-night band data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published March 31, 2021
Data acquired March 27, 2021

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Suomi NPP > VIIRS