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The Comings and Goings of Lakes

Sometimes the slow grind of plate tectonics can determine where and when lakes exist.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published April 24, 2019
Data acquired April 7, 2019

Sources:
Landsat 8
Terra > MODIS