Update on October 26, 2022: This puzzler image shows Lake Retba along the coast of Senegal. The lake’s water’s are often rosy, but had darkened by the time this image was acquired in September 2022 after bouts of heavy rainfall and flooding. Congratulations to Keith Trinity, who was the first to correctly identify the lake and its location. Special mention goes to Rakhee Ranjan for pointing out the intense monsoon season in 2022 and other facts about the region. Read more in the related Image of the Day.
Every month on Earth Matters, we offer a puzzling satellite image. The September 2022 puzzler is shown above. Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us where it is, what we are looking at, and why it is interesting.
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East Harbor, comprising “Pilgrim Lake”, shown in image, the original back-barrier lagoon, Moon Pond and Salt Meadow, both back-barrier salt marshes. Also shown are the position of the original inlet, filled in 1868, and the current four-foot diameter culvert connecting the system to Cape Cod Bay. Maybe I Guess???
Is bloody big puddle next to the sea.
Chilika Lake, odisha
Lac Rose Senegal Latitude; 14.840276° Longitude -17.225446°
Indiana Dunes National Park?
The pic looks like the Kennedy space centre in Florida
Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Lake Retba, Senegal, near Dakar. Floods washed away salt mounds. The lake may lose its pink color due to the flooding.
Looks like Lake Retba in Senegal. Just down the road from Dakar.
A highly salty lake with a pink colour from algae.
Would probably be a great swimming location, until you get salt in your eyes!
Cheers
Simon
It’s like great wall of China, got hole through
Link Lake , British Columbia
it is the Atlantic coast of Senegal northeast of Dakar
and the image includes Lake Retba
Place where Earth and water mixedup , the river is make intresting.
The camera that was used was a normal camera, and may be sensitive to inferred light, and the scale of the image looks to be very large, so those green rectangles are probably very big, and it is on a remote beach somewhere.
This is the lake in Senegal known as “Lac Rose” (Pink lake ). It is pink in a season of the year. It was the end point of the Paris-Dakar Rally!
this picture is token at Lake Retba in north of the Cap Vert peninsula of Senega and the date should be between June to September because of the Local rainfall and dry season and the lake itself is always changing
( this could be identify from the city near by )
Heart ❤️ shape pond that interesting
Location : earth
Lake Retba, Sénégal. (The Rose Lake) this image was probably captured recently in the rainy season when the algae has less sunlight, therefore not producing the red pigment that aids this process.
lac Retba Senegal
Dear sir/ Mam,
Respected all,
I thing this picture was shown a interesting picture of a Sea,
and it is look like a Big Hole, so this things will make it to so interesting.
i don’t know that am i right or not? But i just try to give answer of puzzle and want to test my luck.
Thanking you,
Regards- Chinmohan Ghosh.
Land and sea Face-off.
Image of Earth and Sea Face On
Maybe it could be our Sardinia in Italy!
Lake Retba
Also known as pink lake, it is located in north-west Africa in Senegal. Locally, it is called Lac Rose.
Depending on the time of the day, the lake changes its colour from a light purple to a deep scarlet pink.The pink color of the water is due to a type of algae (Dunaliella salina) that is found in the lake.They produce a red pigment that absorbs and uses the energy of the sunlight turning the water pink.
Its salinity content is nearly equal to the Dead Sea and even higher (as much as approximately 40%) during the dry season months.
Since the 1970s, local residents have been mining Lake Retba for its salt, which they use mainly to preserve fish. Waist-deep in water, the men scrape the bottom of the lake to harvest this universally useful mineral.The salt is then taken back to the shore where it is sectioned into small mounds. Dotted along the lake’s shore, these pristine white hills of salt create an arresting contrast against the pink of the lake.
This monsoon season,Senegal, like other countries in the West and Central Africa region, recorded above-normal rainfall.As a result, drainage systems and retention reservoirs were quickly overwhelmed and channelled flood waters towards the lake which ultimately lead to rise in water level, washing away dozens of salt mounds. Due to all this, the thriving ecosystem of the lake is threatened. The salinity level and colour also gets affected with the gushing of freshwater. This peculiar change in the character of the lake is visible in the photograph captured from the satellite.
Looks like a somewhat dry place. Some infrastruxture has been built to probably protect the coast from erosion. Expensive initiative, I guess. So is it in Australia?
Lake rebta..may be u gonna land capsule on that lake ..or gonna land any space shuttle
Hello, it is a coastal area, it is not clear if of a lake or of a sea. It could be a sea and it is present a kind of a lagoon. There are some rectangular shapes along the coast, most probably human made of human conditioned. Also some probable crops in the more inland area and it seems to be present towns or an agglomerations of buildings and roads inland of the lagoon.
The dark blue spots are ocean water meaning that there’s a leak of ocean water eating up the coast of the beach.
the above given image is the satellite image of Caspian sea.
It is the lake which is called by the name of sea.
The Caspian Sea is situated about 500 km east of the Black Sea, between southeastern Europe and Western Asia, east of the Caucasus Mountains, south of the vast Eurasian Steppe, and west of the Karakum and Kyzylkum Deserts of Central Asia.
Lac Rose (or Retba) near Dakar – Senegal on Cap-Vert peninsula with high salt content water…
Not easy for me – it is old picture from satelite…. I tried to find it near by Alexandria or somewhere near Egypt…
Looks like Caspian sea…
Looks like Caspian sea
Lake Retba, Senegal
Senegal :- International Charter activated due to floods in Dakar
We are looking at Lac Rose, Sénégal or Pink Lake, Senegal
Thanks
Olivier
This is the Lake Retba, Lac Rose or Pink Lake in Senegal, close to Dakar.
It is interesting due to the special pink color of the lake, given by salty algae Dunaliella.
Its lake retba, also know as rose lake because it changes color depending on environmental factor. I guess the water level is not what it look like in the picture.
Thanks
Mital
The Answer for September Puzzle – Misaquamicut Beech, Rhode Island
Looks like Padre Island.
Looks like vehicles moving over a bridge on a Dyke. I guess people escaping from Russia to avoid conscription into the army
Lake Pontchartrain?
Pink lake, no idea why it’s significant – however I can’t assure you I search the costal regions for 45 minutes and found it the proper way.
Lac Rose Senegal 14°50’33″N 17°13’34” W
Lake Retba Senegal?? Interest: the various natural & climatic threats affecting the Lake and environment (rainfall, drought conditions, deforestation, erosion).