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Severe drought gripped much of East Africa in 2009, turning a riverbed into a pale tan ribbon of sand.
NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Holli Riebeek.
Published October 17, 2009 Data acquired September 27, 2009