Aral Sea 2000
In the last thirty years, more than sixty percent of the lake has disappeared. As you'll see in the visualization, the change over time is dramatic. In the following sequence of images, we see a series of Landsat scenes taken several years apart. As the years pass, we see the profound reduction in overall area covered by the Aral, and a commensurate increase in land area as the floor of the sea now lies exposed.
Image Number: WEB12097-2011
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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