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Paw Paw Bends

A particularly curvy part of the Potomac River was a formidable challenge for C&O Canal engineers.


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

Published October 8, 2016
Data acquired September 27, 2016

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Collection:
U.S. National Parks