For much of the year, the salt pan is bone dry. But when the wet season brings abundant rains, the large, shallow basin becomes a temporary oasis.
Published Jan 21, 2020
Repeated pooling and evaporation of water built this expansive salt pan in northern Namibia.
Published Sep 14, 2020
Flood water in the Oshigambo River, resulting from heavy rains in Angola, appears as a gray stream entering the northwest corner of Namibia’s Etosha Pan in this astronaut photo from March 26, 2009.
Published Apr 13, 2009
One of the largest salt pans in the world spreads across northern Botswana, offering critical seasonal oases for mammals and birds.
Published Jul 7, 2018
The park stretches through the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia.
Published Sep 8, 2003
