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The Dizzying Depths of Cotahuasi Canyon

A river in Peru has sculpted one of the deepest canyons in the world.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story The Dizzying Depths of Cotahuasi Canyon .

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Story by Adam Voiland.

Published February 7, 2018
Data acquired June 3, 2016

Sources:: Landsat 8 > OLI; Space Shuttle > SRTM