The Rivers of the Mississippi Watershed
- Visualizations by:
- Horace Mitchell
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This is the same animation as the previous one, except that the Missouri River is colored blue, the same as the Mississippi River. The animation starts with the reveal of a blue line at the headwaters of the Missouri River, at Brower's Spring near the Montana-Idaho border. The streamline from this point to the mouth of the Mississippi River is the longest streamline in the Mississippi watershed.

Three high resolution images of the MIssissippi watershed, one with all the rivers of the animation and the MIssississippi River in blue, and one with all the rivers of the animation and both the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers in blue, and one with no rivers indicated on the satellite image. If one of the images with rivers is laid over the image with no rivers, it is possible to identify and study the rivers on the bare satellite image of the Missippi watershed.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
Visualizer
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
Datasets used in this visualization
Terra and Aqua BMNG (A.K.A. Blue Marble: Next Generation) (Collected with the MODIS sensor)
Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
Dataset can be found at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
See more visualizations using this data setHYDRO1K
HYDRO1k is a geographic database providing consistent global coverage of topographically derived data sets, including streams, drainage basins, and ancillary layers derived from GTOPO30.
Credit: U.S. Geological Survey EROS Center
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