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Channeled Scablands

The landforms on the Columbia Plateau in eastern Washington reveal a past punctuated by violent floods.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published April 19, 2018
Data acquired 2013 - 2018

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Space Shuttle > SRTM