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Shrinking Lakes on the Mongolian Plateau

As mining and farming intensifies in this dry region, lake levels are dropping.


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

Published April 8, 2015
Data acquired August 30, 2001 - August 20, 2006

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 8 > OLI