images

Great Salt Desert, Iran.

by

USGS/Novapix

Reference

t-asira-00005

Date

2006-09-20

Like swirls of paint on an enormous canvas, shallow lakes, mudflats, and salt marshes share the sinuous valleys on Iran's largely uninhabited Dasht-e Kavir, or Great Salt Desert. Landsat-7 satellite image. 04/2001.