Patterns in Salt Desert

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.