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Morganza Spillway Opens in Louisiana

This image from the Advanced Land Imager on NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite was acquired on May 15, 2011, about 24 hours after the Morganza Spillway was partially opened by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to ease flooding along the Mississippi River.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data. Photograph courtesy Team New Orleans, US Army Corps of Engineers. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

Published May 17, 2011
Data acquired May 15, 2011

Source:
EO-1 > ALI