The Dead Sea is shrinking. Every twelvemonth the surface score of the Dead Sea drops to a greater extent than than a metre. In the 1980's the tourist resort of Ein Gedi proudly sat on the coast of the Dead Sea. Tourists immediately confront a 2km walk from Ein Gedi to accomplish the sea.
You tin run into how much the Dead Sea has shrunk since 1973 on this interactive Dead Sea Map. The map contains half dozen overlays which exhibit the surface expanse of the Dead Sea for half dozen unlike years. If you lot hover over whatsoever of the colored squares you lot tin stance an overlay showing the size of the Dead Sea inwards the selected year. An information window reveals the twelvemonth selected, the satellite source for the overlay together with the expanse inwards kilometres of the Dead Sea inwards that year.
You tin compare satellite images of the Dead Sea yourself on NASA'a Earth Observatory. The shrinkage of the Dead Sea is really apparent on NASA's 3 satellite images from 1972, 1989 together with 2011.
The shrinking of the Dead Sea is non even together with hence equally severe equally that suffered past times the Aral Sea. The Aral Sea was 1 time the 4th largest lake inwards the world. Due to Soviet irrigation projects the Aral Sea is immediately less than 10% of the size it 1 time was. In fact the eastern basin of what used to endure the Aral Sea is immediately called the Aralkum Desert
Lots of people convey used satellite images to document how the Aral Sea has dwindled inwards size over time. This NASA Earth Observatory characteristic uses a serial of images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite to document the H2O loss inwards the Aral Sea from 2000-2017.
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