'Lost' Satellite Photos Reveal Surprising Views of Earth in the 1960s

9:13 PM | by vdmagdalen@gmail.com
'Lost' Satellite Photos Reveal Surprising Views of Earth in the 1960s



Once the fourth largest lake in the world, the Aral Sea was bled dry by a series of Soviet irrigation programs on the surrounding Central Asian plains. The satellite images above taken between 2000 and 2013, show the final stages of the Aral Sea’s drainage, a process that started just as the Nimbus satellites captured images of the lake in the 1960s.
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