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Whirling Dust and Ancient Floods

Now a flat and dusty desert playa, Oregon’s Alvord Desert once held an expansive lake that was the source of catastrophic outburst flooding.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Photo by Bonnie Moreland. Story by Lindsey Doermann.

Published July 22, 2025
Data acquired June 29, 2025

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Photograph