How Deep Was Death Valley’s Temporary Lake?

Researchers used satellite data to calculate the depth of water in this transient freshwater body.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story How Deep Was Death Valley’s Temporary Lake?.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using SWOT data provided by the SWOT science team and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Jane Lee (NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory).

Published April 16, 2024
Data acquired February 2 - March 4, 2024

Sources:: Landsat 9 > OLI-2; SWOT > KaRIn