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New Water in the Aral Sea

A wet year can bring a surge of water to this inland lake in Central Asia.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using Terra MODIS data from the Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published September 1, 2017
Data acquired August 22, 2017

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Terra > MODIS