This Dried-Up Salt Lake Lets Satellites Set Their White Balance

This Dried-Up Salt Lake Lets Satellites Set Their White Balance

Sep 2nd 2013, 17:00, by Jamie Condliffe

This image shows a great white expanse on the surface of Earth, but it’s not snow or super-fine sand: in fact, it’s a dried up salt lake in Turkey called Lake Tersakan — and satellites even use it as a calibration tool. The second biggest lake in Turkey and one of the largest saline lakes [...]