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Drought and Barge Backups on the Mississippi

Low water levels are making it difficult to ship goods down the river and allowing a wedge of saltwater to move upstream.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using soil moisture data from Crop Condition and Soil Moisture Analytics (Crop-CASMA), Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey, and data from the National Water Information System. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published October 21, 2022
Data acquired October 17, 2022

Sources:
In situ Measurement
Landsat 9 > OLI-2
SMAP
Collection:
Applied Sciences