Lush Vegetation Brings Locusts to Eastern Australia

This vegetation image from March 2010 shows lush vegetation growing in Australia’s interior, where developing swarms of locusts had been spotted.

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NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided by the United State Department of Agriculture Foreign Agriculture Service and processed by Jennifer Small and Assaf Anyamba, NASA GIMMS Group at Goddard Space Flight Center. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published April 17, 2010
Data acquired March 1 - 31, 2010

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NOAA-18 POES