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LDCM Looks for Water Amidst the Heat

Thermal infrared imagery of the Southern California desert picks up the invisible water in the farmland around the Salton Sea.


NASA images by Matthew Montanaro and Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA. Caption by Kate Ramsayer and Mike Carlowicz.

Published April 23, 2013
Data acquired March 24, 2013

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Landsat 8 > TIRS