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Data acquired February 9, 2005 720 x 480 JPEG
Data acquired February 9, 2005 2693 x 2692 3 MB - JPEG
Data acquired February 9, 2005 2700 x 2700 16 MB - GeoTIFF
Data acquired February 15, 2007 720 x 480 JPEG
Data acquired February 15, 2007 2693 x 2692 3 MB - JPEG
Data acquired February 15, 2007 2700 x 2700 16 MB - GeoTIFF
Data acquired February 9, 2005 - February 15, 2007 65 KB - KML/KMZ
This pair of images from NASA’s Landsat 5 satellite documents the short history of Death Valley’s Lake Badwater: formed in February 2005 and long gone by February 2007.
NASA images by Robert Simmon, based on Landsat data from the USGS Global Visualization Viewer. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey.
Published March 17, 2009 Data acquired February 9, 2005