Image:RiftValleyLakes.JPG

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Description

The lakes of the African Rift Valley exhibit wide variations in water color as can be seen in this SeaWiFS image. From left to right the lakes are: Lake Upembe, Lake Mwaru, Lake Tanganyika (largest), and Lake Rukwa. This image spans the southeastern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, northeastern Zambia, and southern Tanzania.

Source

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=757

Date

2000-07-23

Author

SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

Permission
(Reusing this image)

see below


[edit] Licensing

Public domain This image is from the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) Project. Satellite data captured by the SeaWIFS sensor are released into the public domain 5 years after capture.[1] Data less than five years old can be re-used only for educational or scientific purposes; any commercial use of such images must be coordinated with ORBIMAGE/GeoEye.

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current08:58, 10 April 2006600×392 (46 KB)Matt Crypto (==Summary== '''Source:''' NASA image from http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?2559 ==Licensing== {{PD-USGov-NASA}} ==See also== * en:Image:RiftValleyLakes.JPG)
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