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Monster Waves of Nazaré

Just-right conditions off the coast of this Portuguese fishing town have churned out some of the largest waves ever surfed.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Photograph by Luís Ascenso, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published February 22, 2022
Data acquired October 29, 2020 - February 5, 2022

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Photograph