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Streaks of salt and silt blew southward across Mar Chiquita in early August 2023. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board NASA’s Aqua satellite captured a true-color image of the shifting salts on August 1.

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English: Streaks of salt and silt blew southward across Mar Chiquita in early August 2023. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board NASA’s Aqua satellite captured a true-color image of the shifting salts on August 1. Argentina’s Mar Chiquita is a shallow, salty, and variable lake located in the central part of the country. When the water level is high, the lake covers as much as 6,000 square kilometers (2,300 square miles). When low, it shrinks to 2,000 square kilometers (770 square miles), exposing expansive salt and mud flats along its northern shore. These dry salt flats are a large source of dust in the region, with dust storms occurring as often as 10 to 20 times a month during the winter, when winds are strongest.
Date Taken on 1 August 2023
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