Sediment Plume off the Louisiana Coast

A pulse of flood water from the central United States spilled into the Gulf of Mexico.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Story by Kathryn Hansen with image interpretation by Nan Walker (Louisiana State University) and Alex Kolker (Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium).

Published March 9, 2018
Data acquired March 4, 2018

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