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Once the world’s fourth largest lake, the rapidly shrinking Aral Sea has fragmented into four bodies of water. The Southern Aral Sea and Tsche-Bas Gulf show the most dramatic change in 2011.
NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen, using data obtained from the Land Processes Distibuted Active Archive Center (LP DAAC). Caption by Holli Riebeek. The "View Image Comparison" tool was built with programming help from Jason A.
Published September 11, 2011
Data acquired August 15, 2011