Long View of the Mississippi River Delta - NASA Earth Observatory
WEBWhile orbiting over the Gulf of Mexico in April 2019, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) looked northward to take this highly oblique photo of the Mississippi River delta.
NOAA-20 Captures Clear View of the Mississippi River Delta
WEBFrom its vantage point 512 miles up, the NOAA-20 satellite had a clear view of the Mississippi River Delta as it zoomed by on April 16, 2020. The delta is located where the Mississippi River converges with the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana.
Space Radar Image of Mississippi Delta - NASA Jet Propulsion …
WEBApr 15, 1999 · This is a radar image of the Mississippi River Delta where the river enters into the Gulf of Mexico along the coast of Louisiana. This multi-frequency image demonstrates the capability of the radar to distinguish different types of …
Mississippi River Delta - NASA Earth Observatory
WEBTime, weather, and human intervention have all shaped the Mississippi Delta in Louisiana, a giant bird’s foot shape protruding into the Gulf of Mexico. The Mississippi River deposits sediment into the ocean, and over 25 years, NASA Landsat satellites observed changes in the delta’s shape.
Landsat Image Gallery - Mississippi River Delta - NASA
WEBTime, weather, and human intervention have all shaped the Mississippi Delta in Louisiana, a giant bird’s foot shape protruding into the Gulf of Mexico. The Mississippi River deposits sediment into the ocean, and over 25 years, NASA Landsat satellites observed changes in the delta’s shape.
Mississippi River Delta - NASA Earth Observatory
WEBTurbid waters spill out into the Gulf of Mexico where their suspended sediment is deposited to form the Mississippi River Delta. Like the webbing on a duck’s foot, marshes and mudflats prevail between the shipping channels that have been cut into the delta.
Mississippi River Delta
WEBOct 7, 2007 · Time, weather, and human intervention have all shaped the Mississippi Delta in Louisiana, a giant bird’s foot shape protruding into the Gulf of Mexico. The Mississippi River deposits sediment into the ocean, and over 25 years, NASA Landsat satellites observed changes in the delta’s shape. This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth ...
Mississippi River Delta - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
WEBJun 11, 2002 · As the Mississippi River enters the Gulf of Mexico, it loses energy and dumps its load of sediment that it has carried on its journey through the mid continent as shown in this image from NASA's Terra spacecraft.
Mississippi Delta - visibleearth.nasa.gov
WEBFeb 24, 2000 · This image of the Mississippi Delta was acquired on February 24, 2000 and is one of the first scenes acquired by the Moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the EOS-Terra Spacecraft. It covers an area of 100km by 100km over New Orleans, Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico.
Mississippi Delta - visibleearth.nasa.gov
WEBDec 27, 2001 · Sediment from the Mississippi River, running roughly down the center of the image, fills the Delta as it opens into the Gulf of Mexico. Mixed with the tan sediment are blue and green swirls that indicate a bloom of tiny ocean plants called phytoplankton.