The Turquoise Basin No. 1 — satellite art print of Salton Sea, California, USA, captured 2026-09-01

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The Turquoise Basin No. 1

Salton Sea, California, USA

33.1803, -115.7056 · Captured 2026-09-01

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On 1 September 2026, the Sentinel-2 satellite looked down on the Salton Sea in California's Imperial Valley and found a deep turquoise basin ringed by a hard, pale shoreline — California's largest lake meeting the Imperial Valley's dense agricultural grid in one of the sharpest water-to-farmland edges in the country.