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Taming the Mississippi River

Engineers use levees, floodways, dams, and much more to control the ever restless Mississippi.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Michael Taylor and Adam Voiland, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published March 18, 2015
Data acquired February 2014

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI