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Data acquired May 21, 2000 3000 x 2000 2 MB - JPEG
Data acquired May 21, 2000 3000 x 2000 16 MB - GeoTIFF
Data acquired May 6, 2006 3000 x 2000 3 MB - JPEG
Data acquired May 6, 2006 3000 x 2000 16 MB - GeoTIFF
Data acquired May 21, 2000 - May 6, 2006 56 KB - KML/KMZ
Data acquired May 21, 2000 - May 6, 2006 JPEG
Data acquired May 21, 2000 - May 6, 2006 540 x 669 JPEG
In the 1950s, construction began on the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona. The dam created Lake Powell: a long, skinny, meandering reservoir straddling the Arizona-Utah border. Ingenuity of human design, however, did not protect this massive reservoir from the drought that struck much of the southwestern United States between 2000 and 2007.
NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. Water level data from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation.
Published October 17, 2007 Data acquired May 21, 2000 - May 6, 2006