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Lake Natron, Tanzania

The lake is mostly inhospitable to life, except for a few species adapted to its warm, salty, and alkaline water.


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

Published May 8, 2017
Data acquired March 6, 2017

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI