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Sebkhat El Melah, Tunisia

Along Tunisia’s southeastern coast is a flat plain of about 150 square kilometers (58 square miles) that lies below sea level. Known as Sebkhat El Melah (or Sebkha El Melah), it is in an evaporite basin.


NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data provided by the United States Geological Survey. Caption by Michon Scott.

Published December 7, 2008
Data acquired December 13, 1999

Source:
Landsat 7 > ETM+