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Lake Aculeo Dries Up Friday, April 19, 2019
Lake Aculeo Dries Up
Lake Aculeo Dries Up
Apr 19, 2019
Extracted Page: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144836/lake-aculeo-dries-up
Laguna de Aculeo has long been a popular summer destination for residents of Santiago, Chile. Tucked into a valley less than two hour’s drive from the capital, the shallow lake has been a haven for boaters, swimmers, and water skiers for decades. Its water once spread across an area four times the size of New York’s Central Park and had a depth of 6 meters (20 feet). But by April 2019, all of the water was gone, replaced by a crust of dried mud and a blanket of green vegetation.
The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 revealed the changes in this pair of natural-color images acquire
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