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Pink Lake Loses its Rosy Hue

The waters of Senegal’s Lake Retba turned dark blue-green during an intense wet season in 2022.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published October 6, 2022
Data acquired May 19 - September 16, 2022

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Landsat 9 > OLI-2