two pictures of the Mississippi

[Dave (imported)]

>>There's a huge amount of water in the current picture...

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Alan Boyle writes

Before-and-after satellite imagery reveals how much this month's flooding has changed the shape of the Mississippi River.

The upper image was captured by NASA's Aqua satellite, using its Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, on May 5, 2011. The lower image was taken exactly one year earlier with the same imaging instrument.

Both images use a combination of infrared and visible light to distinguish between different surface features. The water is shown in shades of blue. The clouds visible in this month's image are a pale blue-green. Vegetation is green, and soil is brown. Such images can be used to assess the floods' long-term effects on agriculture in the region.

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