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Coming off of the extreme floods of 2011, the river was approaching historic lows in the summer of 2012 near Memphis and along much of its lower reaches.


NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat data provided by the United States Geological Survey. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published August 21, 2012
Data acquired August 8, 2012

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 7 > ETM+