Satellites have revealed the depth of the extremely rare Death Valley lake that emerged following a rainy winter.
Water level data collected by NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) allowed researchers to reach their findings.
“This is a really cool example of how SWOT can track how unique lake systems work,” Tamlin Pavelsky, the NASA freshwater science lead for SWOT and a hydrologist at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, said in a statement.
The story was also covered by CBS-17.