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Satellites reveal a new view of Earth’s water from space

  • Written by Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Associate Professor of Global Hydrology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Zambezi river delta, snapped by Landsat 8 in March 2018.NASA

In 1889, near the remote border town of Embudo, New Mexico, John Wesley Powell, the famous explorer of the Grand Canyon and second head of the U.S. Geological Survey, started a quiet scientific revolution.

He knew that water would be increasingly important to the American West, but no one...

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