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Salton Sea

The Salton Sea was once a thriving and popular tourist location, but various factors, including an increase in the number of warm days per year and higher temperatures have caused the lake to recede, exposing a toxic lakebed and producing swirling growths of cyanobacteria.

This scene was collected by Landsat 8 on October 12, 2021. Click on it to get a larger version.