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English: Lake Urmia drought (NASA images mixed using cross dissolve transition in adobe-premiere)

Français : Assèchement entre 1984 et 2014 du lac d'Orumieh, en Iran.

Date

Taken in 1984, Taken in 2011, Taken in 2014

Source

http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/QuickView.pl?directory=ISD&ID=STS41G-37-84
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/QuickView.pl?directory=ESC&ID=ISS027-E-9990
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS040&roll=E&frame=17264

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Object location	37° 42′ 15.59″ N, 45° 23′ 14.17″ E	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	37.704331; 45.387269

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This file was selected as the media of the day for 26 July 2014. It was captioned as follows:

English: Lake Urmia's diminishing surface area.

Other languages

Deutsch: Schrumpfung des Urmiasees.

English: Lake Urmia's diminishing surface area.

فارسی: خشک شدن دریاچه ارومیه

Italiano: La diminuzione della superficie del Lago di Urmia

Русский: Видео, показывающее уменьшение площади поверхности озера Урмия в Иране.

Sicilianu: La diminuzzioni dâ supirfici dô Lagu d'Urmia

中文（简体）：日渐缩小的尔米亚湖

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37°42'15.592"N, 45°23'14.168"E

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