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On This Day in 2013: Elephant Butte Reservoir

The volume of water in New Mexico’s largest reservoir dropped to historic lows due to drought and persistent demand.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published July 8, 2023
Data acquired June 2, 1994 - July 8, 2013

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 8 > OLI