Great Salt Desert, Iran
Credit: Image credit: USGS/NASA/Landsat, Posted on: Sunday, 11 April 2004, 06:00 CDT Download full size image
Like swirls of paint on an enormous canvas, shallow lakes, mudflats, and salt marshes share the sinuous valleys on Iran’s largely uninhabitated Dasht-e Kavir, or Great Salt Desert. This image was acquired by Landsat 7’s Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) sensor.
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