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A Sudden Color Change on Lake Kivu

The lake in central Africa is in the middle of a whiting event caused by calcium carbonate precipitation.


NASA images by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Michael Carlowicz, with image interpretation help from Cynthia Ebinger (University of Rochester), Jarmo Gummerus (ContourGlobal/KivuWatt Ltd.), and Augusta Umutoni (Lake Kivu Monitoring Program).

Published April 26, 2016
Data acquired April 10 - 20, 2016

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Terra > MODIS
Collection:
MODIS Rapid Response