Rains Darken Soil in Texas (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Rains Darken Soil in Texas

Caption

For comparison, this image of Texas obtained by astronauts aboard NASA's Gemini 4 spacecraft on June 5, 1965, shows a large dark swath attributed to rainfall. The dark areas correspond to regions that received more than one inch of rain in the days before the image was obtained. The large swath is about 16 kilometers (10 miles) across near the western (left) end.

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NASA/Johnson Space Center

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