Your Imagery Work Break – Lake Bumbunga

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April showers have arrived here in the USA–hopefully it is the same by you. In honor of spring, it’s time to get out and enjoy these rain puddles. But before you head out, take a few moments to gander this 1.5-meter SPOT 6 image collected over Lake Bumbunga on February 24, 2014. Located in southern Australia just 14 miles (about 22 kilometers) from the Southern Ocean, Lake Bumbunga is both a tourist destination and an important economic driver for the region. As you can imagine, tourists flock to the lake to take a few selfies in its pink waters; and since the late 1880s, businesses have harvested salt from the lake bed with peak production in the 1960s at over 11,000 tons a day. The waters reach their maximum level of pinkness in the summer hence we picked an image from February which corresponds to Australia’s summer. Anyone up for a trip Down Under to visit this cool lake?!

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(PLEIADES © CNES 2021, Distribution Airbus DS. SPOT © Airbus DS 2021. Image processed by Apollo Mapping for improved color accuracy and clarity.)