Death Valley Flash Flooding

In one of the driest places on Earth, a thousand-year rain event delivered 75 percent of the yearly average precipitation in just three hours.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Sara E. Pratt.

Published August 9, 2022
Data acquired July 11 - August 7, 2022

Sources:

Aqua > MODIS

Terra > MODIS

Collection:

U.S. National Parks