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Sculpting a Basin

Erosion by water, wind, and rockslides hollowed out the Ga’ara Depression in the remote northwestern corner of Iraq.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published April 5, 2018
Data acquired August 27, 2017

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI