this image of northern portion of NILE river was captured by MISR's nadir camera on JAN 30th 2001. Against the barren desert of NE africa river NILE runs northward through egypt.
The imagery was collected on December 26th 2004 at 10:20 a.m.(local time SriLanka) shortly after Tsunami hit SriLanka.
This is a quick bird eye image featuring.