The landscape near the southern Murray River contrasts fertile farmland with dry lakes.
Published Apr 24, 2017
Linear dunes and ephemeral streams converge on the eastern margin of the Simpson Desert in a region known for its floods.
Published Sep 15, 2012
It is unclear who created the giant geoglyph or why, but the large earthen figure has drawn attention to a remote part of South Australia for two decades.
Published Dec 29, 2019
Acquired February 18, 2010, this true-color image shows Lake Acraman and surrounding saltpans in South Australia. The sprawling saltpans appear off-white, and the largely bare soils appear in shades of orange and brown.
Published Feb 28, 2010
Fantastic dunes stand alongside one of the world’s largest internally draining river systems.
Published Sep 29, 2019
Acquired on April 10, 2010, and and March 7, 2009, these natural-color images show changes in a central Australian saltpan, Lake Frome. In 2010, water has seeped into the salt lake, leaving standing water in some areas and muddying much of the ground surface.
Published Apr 14, 2010
Western Australia’s Lake Dundas is a salt lake in a dry environment, but it once sat along a drainage channel with headwaters in Antarctica.
Published Jan 17, 2012
High winds menaced Australia’s residents in late September 2006, damaging buildings along the east coast and damaging crops and homes in South Australia. In the midst of this high-wind activity, a dust storm struck the Simpson Desert.
Published Sep 25, 2006
Fragile-seeming dust plumes blew off the coast of South Australia on June 16, 2008.
Published Jun 19, 2008
Several years of dry conditions have set the stage for a fierce fire season in several southeastern states.
Published Sep 13, 2019
Fires, bumper crops, and encephalitis could follow.
Published Mar 17, 2012
This vegetation image from March 2010 shows lush vegetation growing in Australia’s interior, where developing swarms of locusts had been spotted.
Published Apr 17, 2010
