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Meandering in the Amazon

Lowland rivers that carry large volumes of sediment are on the move.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published December 4, 2014
Data acquired June 11, 1985 - July 13, 2014

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 8 > OLI