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Deluge in the Amargosa and Death Valleys

In October 2015, a deluge of rain flooded desert valleys in the U.S. Southwest.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Deluge in the Amargosa and Death Valleys.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and IMERG data provided courtesy of the Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) Science Team's Precipitation Processing System (PPS). Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published November 4, 2015
Data acquired October 3 - 19, 2015

Sources:: GPM; Landsat 8 > OLI