Great Salt Lake Satellite Images

These effects included a great increase in the lake s area the opening of the causeway crossing the lake and the creation of a new evaporation basin west of the lake.

Great salt lake satellite images.

These two landsat satellite images show recent changes in the farmington bay basin of great salt lake. The great salt lake is a terminal lake with no outlet rivers running to the ocean. In november 2016 if the causeway in the great salt lake had completely disappeared the lake would ve hit a record low it had an average elevation of 4 191 3 feet. Earlier this week nasa s earth observatory posted satellite images showing the dramatic decline of utah s great salt lake over the past five years.

Satellite images of environmental change. Science center objects. In an average year the lake covers an area of approximately 1 700 square miles 4 400 km 2 but the lake s size fluctuates substantially due to its shallowness. For instance in 1963 it reached its lowest.

These images show the dramatic effects of the great salt lake s high water levels in the 1980s. These effects included a great increase in the lake s area the opening of the causeway crossing the lake and the creation of a new evaporation. These images show the dramatic effects of the great salt lake s high water levels in the 1980s. State of utah is the largest salt water lake in the western hemisphere and the eighth largest terminal lake in the world.

The second image was captured by the operational land imager oli on landsat 8 on september 20 2016.