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Mississippi River Delta
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Published October 7, 2007
Time, weather, and human intervention have all shaped the Mississippi Delta in Louisiana, a giant bird’s foot shape protruding into the Gulf of Mexico. The Mississippi River deposits sediment into the ocean, and over 25 years, NASA Landsat satellites observed changes in the delta’s shape.
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The Shrinking Aral Sea
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Published May 5, 2001
The sequence of images shows the dramatic changes to the Aral Sea between 1973 and 2000.
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