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DescriptionDead-Sea---Salt-Evaporation-Ponds.jpg	English: Orbital image of Jordanian and Israeli mineral evaporation ponds at the south end of the Dead Sea, separated by a central dike that runs roughly north-south along the international border.
Source	http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?7875
Author	Image taken from the space shuttle by the STS102 crew in March 2001.

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Dead Sea	View of the mineral evaporation ponds almost 12 years later (STS-102). A northern and small southeastern extension were added and the large polygonal ponds subdivided.

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