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Lake Badwater, Death Valley

This pair of images from NASA’s Landsat 5 satellite documents the short history of Death Valley’s Lake Badwater: formed in February 2005 and long gone by February 2007.


NASA images by Robert Simmon, based on Landsat data from the USGS Global Visualization Viewer. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey.

Published March 17, 2009
Data acquired February 9, 2005

Source:
Landsat 5 > TM