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Venice Holds Back the Adriatic Sea

A long-awaited system of movable floodgates is starting to protect the city from the highest tides.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Venice Holds Back the Adriatic Sea.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by the European Space Agency. Story by Adam Voiland, with input and fact checking by Luca Zaggia (CNR), Federica Braga (CNR), Gian Marco Scarpa (CNR), and Vittorio Brando (CNR).

Published December 2, 2021
Data acquired November 4 - 6, 2021

Sources:: Landsat 8 > OLI; Sentinel-2