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Connecticut River Oxbow

Floods and new infrastructure have long since separated the distinctive bend in the river that was portrayed by landscape painter Thomas Cole in 1836.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow (painting) by Thomas Cole. Story by Adam Voiland, with information from Jenn Hoyle Fair.

Published October 15, 2017
Data acquired September 25, 2017

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Photograph