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Another NASA Earth Observatory image taken from the shuttle. Lake Menindee in Australia's Outback. The creamy circles are normally dry lakes with water in them. The black ribbon starting in top right is the actual river with actual water in it. If you zoom the image you will see all across the bottom half, from top right corner to bottom left corner is full of swirls of former river paths. I guess sometime in the past there was a lot more water here than now.

Enjoy.

Mikel.

PS After the first few comments it occurred to me that colours I took as absolutely normal for a landscape might seem pretty extreme for people from wetter and geologically younger regions of the planet. Australia is a very old land mass, very worn down, vast areas are this red colour, one reason the dry centre of the continent is called The Red Centre. Don't have to travel too far from the green fringe, where I live, to start encountering these red soils, for me, they are simply "what nature looks like", so I posted this uber-red image without a passing thought. Context constructs reality, for sure.