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Jagersfontein Covered in Mining Waste

The South African mining town and nearby water systems remained capped with muddy debris nearly one month after the collapse of a tailings dam.


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

Published October 20, 2022
Data acquired September 10 - October 4, 2022

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Landsat 9 > OLI-2