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Dr. Amber Jenkins

Amber Jenkins is Editor of NASA's Climate Change website and project manager of the Center for Climate Sciences at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She's passionate about climate change, science and science communication.

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Pick of the pics
Small but beautiful Guinea-Bissau
April 08, 2010
posted by Dr. Amber Jenkins
17:00 PDT
Pick of the pics

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This image, which was taken by the Landsat satellite on 1 December, 2000, shows Guinea-Bissau, a small country in West Africa. Complicated patterns can be seen in the shallow waters along its coastline, where silt carried by the Geba and other rivers washes out into the Atlantic Ocean.

Courtesy of the extremely cool NASA/USGS Earth as Art gallery.

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