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Remnants of an Ancient Lake

The spits etched into a desert in Chad were actually formed thousands of years ago along the shores of a vast lake.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Remnants of an Ancient Lake.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens. using topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published February 17, 2020
Data acquired 2000 - 2020