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Strata & Time · 00:06 · 2026

A braided river redraws its channels

The Yarlung Zangbo on the Tibetan Plateau, seen summer after summer. Braided channels split, rejoin and abandon each other across a gravel plain.

What to look for

There is no single channel to follow here. Watch which threads carry water from one summer to the next; few of them stay in place for long.

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Collection
Strata & Time
Series
Forty years in four seconds
Running time
00:06
Year
2026
Source
NASA SVS / Landsat, SVS 15034
Licence
Public domain (United States government work)

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