File:2011 Flooding From Mississippi River Levee Breach.jpg
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Description2011 Flooding From Mississippi River Levee Breach.jpg |
English: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers detonated explosives at the Birds Point levee near Wyatt, Missouri, at 10:02 p.m. on May 2, 2011. Water from the intentional breach flooded a 130,000-acre stretch of land. Two more breaches were detonated on May 3 and 5. This image shows the resultant flooding of farmland west of the Mississippi 32 kilometres south of the levee breach. On the image, vegetation is displayed in red, bare fields in gray and water in blue. The image covers an area of 49.5 by 63 kilometres. |
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Source | NASA Image of the Day |
Author | NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team |
Camera location | 36° 30′ 00″ N, 89° 24′ 00″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 36.500000; -89.400000 |
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Image captured by the the Advanced Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft.
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