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Disappearing Walker Lake

Like this lake in northwestern Nevada, many of the world’s prominent salt lakes are drying up.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published April 4, 2018
Data acquired October 22, 1988

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 8 > OLI