Floodwaters Fill Badwater Basin

Record rainfall associated with Hurricane Hilary in August 2023 created a large temporary lake in Death Valley.

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NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Photograph by K. Bott/NPS. Story by Lindsey Doermann.

Published November 9, 2023
Data acquired July 5 - November 2, 2023

Sources:

Landsat 8 > OLI

Landsat 9 > OLI-2

Photograph

Collection:

U.S. National Parks