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Shrinking Shoreline of the Salton Sea

California’s largest lake is shrinking, and an unusual combination of conservation, drought, and water laws may someday take it away.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using ASTER data from NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team, and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published October 9, 2015
Data acquired 1984 - 2015

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Terra > ASTER