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Red Lake Urmia

When the water gets saltier in Iran’s largest lake, the microscopic inhabitants can turn the water dark red.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Red Lake Urmia.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from the Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland, with information from Amin Eimanifar (University of Florida) and Mohammed Tourian (University of Stuttgart).

Published July 26, 2016
Data acquired April 20 - July 18, 2016

Sources:: Aqua > MODIS; Landsat 8 > OLI; Terra > MODIS