Long, parallel dunes cross borders in one of Australia’s driest deserts.
Published Oct 16, 2015
Fresh rains partly fill a normally dry lake bed near Perth.
Published Apr 18, 2016
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 January 14, 2011, and December 29, 2010, these false-color images show changes to Australia’s interior caused by heavy rains.
Published Jan 14, 2011
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
Ephemeral lakes grow with a fresh pulse of water in December 2011.
Published Jan 2, 2012
Fires, bumper crops, and encephalitis could follow.
Published Mar 17, 2012
Sections of Australia have been experiencing their worst drought in 100 years. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station documented conditions in Australia in 2002, including these images of Lake Tandou in the Menindee Lake system along the Darling River. The Menindee Lakes are part of an innovative water conservation project. This lakebed is protected from flooding and is used for agriculture—primarily cotton, sunflower and grains. It is one of several interconnected lakes that sit along the lower Darling River like a string of pearls. Other lakes function as water capture reservoirs to support controlled water flow for environmental and agricultural needs down river, and to provide flood mitigation.
Published Dec 1, 2002
