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Uploaded: 01/19/10 12:37 AM GMT
Lakes in the Desert.
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Another Earth Observatory image, Image by Robert Simmon, Reto Stöckli, and Brian Montgomery, NASA GSFC. Taken October 10 2000 by MODIS. I curved it and did some layer masking to lighten some darker areas for detail. Aswan Dam in Egypt overflowed and the overflow was so great it overflowed the backup storage and created new lakes, the dark spots to the left of the dark ribbon near the bottom of the image are the new lakes. Well, new ten years ago. Which gets me thinking, I wonder if they are still there or have dried up? I'll get back to you on that. :) I love the colours of the desert so I didn't crop for only the new lakes.

Enjoy.

Mikel.

PS, most recent information I found was that the lakes maintained their size for a few years but then started to shrink as inflow stopped. A lot of infrastructure was built to try to take advantage of the opportunities the new lakes offered, if they dry up, that's a lot of wasted money and effort.

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.lovestoned
01/19/10 12:42 AM GMT
Thanks for sharing as well. This is good ;)
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::Ed1958
01/19/10 3:28 PM GMT
Interesting image clear and well managed.
Ed.
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::Logun7
01/19/10 5:22 PM GMT
(¯`'•.¸(¯`'•.¸ GREAT POST ¸.•'´¯)¸.•'´¯)
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every day is a gift......that's why it's called the present!!
::corngrowth
01/19/10 7:19 PM GMT
Have tried to observe the pirates off the coast of Somalia, but didn't succeed because the image don't go that far to the south and was already taken in 2000, lol.
Interesting post though Mikel.
Regards, Cornelius.
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Cornelius was here either to enjoy your image or say 'thank you' for your interest in my work. Please CLICK HERE to see my journal!
::Inkeri
01/19/10 8:33 PM GMT
A Fascinating and Fantastic space image,Mikel.
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.SatCom
01/20/10 4:10 AM GMT
Too cool...always interesting to see this type of image from a different view point.
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Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. - Ansel Adams....... My Gallery
::sharonva
01/24/10 7:33 PM GMT
I love images like this...this one is very nicely presented! Hope you put these skills to posting more of these.
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"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, Thassay so hard, so sharp the conquering..." Chaucer
.za4em9
05/28/12 12:13 AM GMT
wow, nice river; however, to me the prettiest is the texture and colors of the desert on the left. And pity about the lakes; maybe the dam should have been raised some more.
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