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Queensland’s Channel Country

Linear dunes and ephemeral streams converge on the eastern margin of the Simpson Desert in a region known for its floods.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data from the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Adam Voiland, with information from Kathryn Berg of the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland. Congratulations to Carl Schardt, Conan Witzel, and David Haycock for being some of the first readers to solve the puzzler.

Published September 15, 2012
Data acquired May 20, 2004

Source:
EO-1 > ALI