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Southern Madeira

This detailed image, taken by the Advanced Land Imager on NASA’s EO-1 satellite on March 7, 2007, illustrates how the steep mountains and deep ravines contributed to a flooding disaster in February 2010.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using EO-1 ALI data provided by the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published February 24, 2010
Data acquired February 20, 2010

Source:
EO-1 > ALI