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Death Valley Flash Flooding

In one of the driest places on Earth, a thousand-year rain event delivered 75 percent of the yearly average precipitation in just three hours.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Sara E. Pratt.

Published August 9, 2022
Data acquired July 11 - August 7, 2022

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Terra > MODIS
Collection:
U.S. National Parks