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SeaWiFs Images : Africa
All images courtesy of the SeaWiFS Project, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, unless otherwise noted.
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The Nile Delta |
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Following weeks of heavy rains, massive flooding inundated
much of Eastern and Southern Africa and more than 200,000 people
were left homeless. The crisis began in early February, 2000 as
days of torrential rain fell over wide areas. Vastly overflowing
rivers sent much of that water rushing towards Mozambique. Mozambique
was one of the hardest hit countries, with tens of thousands of
people needing rescue. The direct hit from rain-saturated Cyclone
Leon-Eline during the last week of February sent the already soaked
country into crisis.
This view of that cyclone was captured by SeaWiFS on 23 February 2000.
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South Africa |
South Africa
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