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Amazon basin as seen by Envisat

author: ESA/Novapix

reference: t-sabrl-00101

Image Size 300 DPI: 23 * 23 cm

This Envisat image, acquired on 28 September 2008, features the confluence of the Amazon Basin's main ‘black' and ‘white' rivers – the Rio Negro (visible flowing east-southeast) and the Solimões (seen flowing along the bottom of the image) respectively – forming the Amazon River just below Manaus, visible in white north of the confluence of the rivers.

Keywords for this photo:

2008 - AMAZON - AMAZON RAINFOREST - BRAZIL - DEFORESTATION - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - ENVISAT - FOREST - MANAUS - RAINFOREST - RIO NEGRO - RIVER - SATELLITE IMAGE - SOUTH AMERICA - WATER -