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The Dead Sea

The lake between Israel and Jordan provides a bounty of salt and of history.


NASA image by Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the United States Geological Survey. Caption by Aries Keck and Mike Carlowicz.

Published April 6, 2012
Data acquired September 15, 1972 - October 11, 2011

Sources:
Landsat 4 > TM
Landsat 7
Landsat 7 > ETM+