A Summer of Rain Paints Eastern Australia Green

Fires, bumper crops, and encephalitis could follow.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using data provided by the United State Department of Agriculture Foreign Agriculture Service and processed by Jennifer Small and Assaf Anyamba, NASA GIMMS Group at Goddard Space Flight Center and the Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) Global Agricultural Monitoring Project (GLAM) Project. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published March 17, 2012
Data acquired February 1 - 29, 2012

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NOAA-18 POES