ASTER Images Flooding from Mississippi River Levee Breach

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ASTER Images Flooding from Mississippi River Levee Breach

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NASA Terra spacecraft shows the resultant flooding of farmland west of the Mississippi 20 miles south of the Mississippi River levee breach. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers detonated explosives at the Birds Point levee near Wyatt, Missouri, on May 2, 2011.
NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team

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10/05/2011
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California Institute of Technology - Jet Propulsion Laboratory34.20139, -118.17341
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