New NASA satellite takes the Salton Sea’s temperature

An image from an instrument aboard NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission or LDCM satellite may look like a typical black-and-white image of a dramatic landscape, but it tells a story of temperature. The dark waters of the Salton Sea pop in the middle of the Southern California desert. Crops create a checkerboard pattern stretching south to the Mexican border.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/nsf…