In a non-El Niño year, the lake receives less than 500 millimeters (20 inches) of rain. In these images, you can see the deepest water along the perimeter of the lake bed, the location of lower-elevation lagoons. They show the lake on March 6, 2017, very early in the rainy season that runs from March to May. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured these natural-color images of Lake Natron and its surroundings. The lake is mostly inhospitable to life, except for a few species adapted to its warm, salty, and alkaline water.īut you don’t need to visit the lake in person to see its stunning, seasonal color. Not many people venture near the shores of Lake Natron in northern Tanzania.
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