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Cultivating Egypt’s Desert

This part of the eastern Sahara is very dry, but greenery has been cropping up in recent decades.


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

Published March 11, 2017
Data acquired February 26, 2017

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI