File:Flooding on the Mekong River Flood Plain.jpg
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English: An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) took this photograph of the Mekong River along the border between Thailand and Laos, in an area about 60 kilometers (40 miles) northeast of Vientiane. Southeast Asia’s largest river winds as a red-brown channel of flood water, the result of very heavy monsoon rainfall that affected populations from North Vietnam through Thailand and Myanmar to India. ISS crews have been specially tasked to document floods photographically; these photos represent one type of imagery that NASA can collect to assist relief authorities on the ground.
Both images show thousands of acres of flooded farmland on the Mekong floodplain, in zones far wider than the "bankfull" river itself. Red-brown water on the farmland seems to have come mainly from runoff from the hills, as the Mekong does not appear to have burst its banks (at least in photos collected from the ISS). Download full resolution and read more at earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86421&src=...
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