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Island Rises Up off of Cape Hatteras

The natural movement of sediment has built up a shoal island off the Outer Banks in North Carolina.


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

Published July 12, 2017
Data acquired November 16, 2016 - July 7, 2017

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI