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Great Salt Lake, October 1989

The Great Salt Lake and the Great Salt Lake Desert are shown in the spectacular northeast-looking, oblique view from STS-34. Great Salt Lake grew in size in the mid-1980's due to heavy winter snow packs. When the rising lake levels threatened developed lands, water was diverted to form a new lake, visible to the left (1). Compare this with the STS 51B photograph of April 1985. Also visible in this view are Utah (2) and Bear (3) Lakes; the Grand Tetons (4) and Wind River (5) Ranges, and Yellowstone National Park (6).
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Great Salt Lake Causeway

This unique near-vertical view shows the large railroad causeway which traverses the lake east to west. The causeway acts as a barrier and separates the deeper waters in the southern half of the lake from the shallow waters to the north. Biological material highlights small gyres (1) in the lake. Salt fields are visible at the left center of the photograph. Also visible in this view are Fremont Island (2), Carrington Island (3), and Promontory Point (4). Snow covers the higher elevations of the Promontory Mountains. (S36-83-018)

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