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Panama Canal Traffic Backup

Severe drought is reducing the number of daily passages on the transoceanic shipping route.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Panama Canal Traffic Backup.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Lindsey Doermann.

Published September 1, 2023
Data acquired August 18, 2023

Source:: Landsat 8