Amazon River mouth. Picture captured from space in September 2000. Source: NASA Visible Earth
This image of the Amazon's mouth was captured by the Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer's (MISR's) vertical-viewing (nadir) camera on September 8, 2000, during Terra orbit 3862. The image is approximately 380 kilometers (235 miles) in width.
While the Amazon is surpassed in length by the Nile, it carries the largest volume of freshwater in the world, accounting for nearly 20 percent of the Earth's discharge into the oceans. Millions of cubic feet of water empty into the Atlantic every second, and the effluent is transported across very large distances from shore.
MISR was built and is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, for NASA's Office of Earth Science, Washington, DC. The Terra satellite is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology.
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Amazon River mouth. Picture captured from space in September 2000. Source: [http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/1605/amazon_mouth.jpg NASA Visible Earth] This image of the Amazon's mouth was captured by the Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer's (MISR's