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Data acquired July 21 - October 10, 2009 720 x 480 JPEG
Data acquired July 21 - October 10, 2009 1309 x 1116 280 KB - JPEG
Severe drought choked East Africa, particularly Kenya, though much of 2009. This image shows the cumulative effect of the drought on vegetation just as the drought-breaking rains began to fall in October.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen made with data provided by Jennifer Small, NASA GIMMS Group at Goddard Space Flight Center. Caption by Holli Riebeek.
Published October 31, 2009 Data acquired July 21 - October 10, 2009