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Dried Out Vegetation Across America

In August 2012, satellites observed the effects of drought and heat waves on vegetation from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River.


NASA Earth Observatory image 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 and the Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) Global Agricultural Monitoring Project (GLAM) Project. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

Published October 3, 2012
Data acquired August 2012

Source:
Terra > MODIS