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Wildflowers on the Carrizo Plain

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2019-03-18 00:00:00
March 18, 2019
2019-03-18 00:00:00

After a wet winter, an explosion of wildflowers have emerged in Southern California. On March 18, 2019, the

Operational Land Imager

(OLI) on

Landsat 8

captured this image of wildflowers blanketing green hillsides and stream valleys near the town of

New Cuyuma

.

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NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Text by Adam Voiland.

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