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Description The lakes of the African Rift Valley exhibit wide variations in water color as can be seen in this SeaWiFS image. From left to right the lakes are: Lake Upembe, Lake Mweru, Lake Tanganyika (largest), and Lake Rukwa. This image spans the southeastern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, northeastern Zambia, and southern Tanzania.
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Source http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=757
Author SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

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Public domain This image is from the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) Project and more than 5 years old.

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The lakes of the African Rift Valley

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Great Rift Valley

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23 July 2000

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current18:40, 25 September 2005Thumbnail for version as of 18:40, 25 September 20051,000 × 654 (127 KB)Moyogofrom NASA [http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=757] Category:Africa

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