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The lake they made, the Aral Sea, was once the fourth largest in the world. Although irrigation made the desert bloom, it devastated the Aral Sea. This series of images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)on NASA’s Terrasatellite documents the changes. At the start of the series in 2000, the lake was already a ...
1 cze 2023 · Divided between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea is a salty basin of oceanic origin that originated, like the Caspian and Black Seas, 5 million years ago from the separation of the ancient Parateid, an oceanic basin dating back to the Jurassic period.
23 wrz 2024 · Aral Sea, a once-large saltwater lake of Central Asia. It was once the world’s fourth largest body of inland water but has shrunk remarkably because of the diversion of its sources of inflowing water for irrigation beginning in the second half of the 20th century.
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20 paź 2022 · This map uses a Landsat image from 1974 to show the state of the Aral Sea. At this time, the area of the sea measures approximately 22,500 sq mi. Here we can see that the North and South pieces of the Sea are completely connected and form a whole.
The Aral Sea has been shrinking since the 1970s, and has lost a massive portion of its coverage.
Map including the Aral Sea and surrounding region (DMA, 1979) In 1851 two newly built steamers arrived from Sweden.
