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Cycles of Wet and Dry in Etosha Pan

Repeated pooling and evaporation of water built this expansive salt pan in northern Namibia.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Cycles of Wet and Dry in Etosha Pan.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published September 14, 2020
Data acquired December 11, 2019 - August 31, 2020