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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.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Drought and Barge Backups on the Mississippi.

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