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Date Orchards along the Orange River

Few plants can survive in this barren Northern Cape landscape—unless they happen to have a direct line to the Orange River.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Date Orchards along the Orange River.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team and the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland. Congratulations to JMR for being the first reader to solve the puzzler.

Published March 2, 2014
Data acquired July 7, 2013

Source:: EO-1 > ALI