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Dry Lake Area Resembles Painter’s Palette
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Dry Lake Area Resembles Painter’s Palette

This astronaut photograph shows the white, salt-covered floor in the northwest corner of the Etosha Pan, a great dry lake in northern Namibia, surrounded by multicolored water features. In a rare event shown in this image, rainwater has flowed down the Ekuma River—which appears as a blue line within the light gray-green floodplain—and fills a lobe of the lake with light green water.

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