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This image from NASA Terra spacecraft shows Poyang Lake, which was once China largest freshwater lake.
This image from NASA Terra spacecraft shows Lake Mackay, the largest of hundreds of ephemeral lakes scattered...
NASA Terra satellite presents this false color view of portions of Wisconsin and Michigan, including Devil Lake,...
NASA image captured March 28, 2011 The Great Lakes Satellite: Terra NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s...
Lake St. Clair connects Lake Huron, via the St. Clair River, to Lake Erie, via the Detroit River. It is named after...
Japan's Lake Mashu on Hokkaido Island is one of the clearest lakes in the world. It was formed about 2,000 years ago...
STS060-87-087 (3-11 Feb 1994) --- Lake Baikal, in southeastern Siberia, is the largest freshwater lake in the world...
Lake Karakul in northeast Tajikistan is a hypersaline lake with no external drainage, receiving less than 3 cm...
The white ring around Lake Powell tells the story. The surface is down 98 feet. This is critical, because Powell,...
In eastern California, along the western edge of the Great Basin, sits Mono Lake. This is a salty remnant of a...
The eastern shore of Lake Salda in Turkey is a good analog for what an ancient lake may have looked like at Jezero...
Oroville Dam in Northern California is an earth fill embankment dam, and is the tallest dam in the U.S. Lake...
n Jammu and Kashmir, India, along the Jhelum River, Dal and Wular Lakes are remnants of a much larger pre-glacial...
SL2-05-390 (22 June 1973) --- Greater Detroit (42.0N, 82.5W) is located at the southeastern border of Michigan on...
This ASTER image was acquired on July 29, 2000 and covers an area of 30 by 57 km in northern Italy. Lake Garda was...
STS059-209-081 (9-20 April 1994) --- Lake Balkhash, in eastern Kazakhstan, is some 300 miles long. The lake, frozen...
STS059-154-160 (9-20 April 1994) --- Orient with Mono Lake, California at the lower right; then the view is westward...
The planet Mercury is seen in silhouette as it transits across the face of the sun, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019 in Salt...
Lakes on Saturn moon Titan reflect radio waves in varying ways in this image from NASA Cassini spacecraft. If a lake...
iss071e413340 (Aug. 1, 2024) --- At top left, is Lake Markakol, and at lower right, is the Irtysh River flowing into...
NASA Cassini spacecraft peers down though layers of haze to glimpse the lakes of Titan northern regions. Titan has a...
Lake Afrera is a hypersaline lake located in the Danakil Depression in northern Ethiopia where rock salt has been...
The Cassini spacecraft, using its radar system, has discovered very strong evidence for hydrocarbon lakes on Titan....
iss071e439835 (Aug. 7, 2024) --- Wildfires just northwest of California's Eagle Lake and Honey Lake (far left) are...