These are patterns seen in a salt desert in Iran. I shrank
the images. In order to get the full effect, you need to see
the full-size images. Note these are multi-megabyte files,
which is why I only show a little compressed snippet.
-
href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/dashelut_ast_2003198_lrg.jpg">Central
Dasht-e Lut. May 13, 2003 (4.0 MB) -
href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/dashelut_ast_2006133_lrg.jpg">Southeastern
Dasht-e Lut. July 17, 2006 (3.8 MB)
They are from the
href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17424">NASA
Earth Observatory.
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