Pyramid Lake in Bloom

Blooms of cyanobacteria develop in the brackish waters of this Nevada lake nearly every year.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Pyramid Lake in Bloom.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Photo by Luke H. Gordon. Story by Lindsey Doermann.

Published October 17, 2024
Data acquired October 8, 2024