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Summer Rains on Nevada’s Black Rock Playa

Late-season storms saturated the desert, leaving tens of thousands of festivalgoers stuck in the mire.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Summer Rains on Nevada’s Black Rock Playa.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview, and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Lindsey Doermann.

Published September 8, 2023
Data acquired August 26 - September 4, 2023