Flooding in the Chilean Desert

Historic rain around the Atacama Desert led to devastating floods and mud flows.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Flooding in the Chilean Desert.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using IMERG data provided courtesy of the Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) Science Team’s Precipitation Processing System (PPS). Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

Published April 11, 2015
Data acquired March 25 - 27, 2015

Source:: GPM