Roughly the same size of Belgium, Canada’s Great Slave Lake runs nearly 2,000 feet deep.
Published May 24, 2019
A relatively rare blanket of ice rested on the surface of Lake Superior in early March 2009.
Published Mar 13, 2009
Lake Erie’s shallowness not only makes it more prone to fluctuating water levels, but also enables this lake to freeze and thaw more readily than its neighbors.
Published Mar 16, 2007
This lake in northwest Russia is small compared to Lake Baikal, yet it still manages to make a stately appearance in satellite imagery.
Published Apr 4, 2020
Straddling Austria and Hungary, the lake is also known as the “Sea of the Viennese.”
Published Apr 10, 2017
People and satellites keep an eye on when ice on the world’s deepest lake melts each year.
Published May 10, 2012
Nearly 90 percent of the lake was ice-covered on January 9, 2014.
Published Jan 15, 2014
Long and short. Deep and shallow. Salty and fresh. Blue and brown. These are Africa’s Lake Tanganyika and Lake Rukwa.
Published Jun 20, 2019
A submarine vehicle built by a JPL scientist and Arizona State University students surveys Lake Whillans, which is 800 meters below an ice sheet.
Published Mar 17, 2013
Sitting atop the Andes plateau on the border between Peru and Bolivia, the lake is the highest major body of navigable water in the world and the largest lake in South America.
Published Nov 23, 2015
Accessed January 24, 2011, this natural-color image shows ice coating Lake Baikal.
Published Jan 24, 2011
A strange circular area of thinned ice appears in this astronaut photo from late April 2009 of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia.
Published May 25, 2009
The salty lake in northern Kazakhstan is rich in natural and spaceflight history.
Published Jun 13, 2016
