[:ja]トマ・ペスケ宇宙飛行士がISSから撮影したカナダ、サスカチュワン州のオールドウィブス湖です。まだ氷が張っていますが、春を迎えています。
オールドウィブス湖は、サスカチュワン南部にある塩湖です。この湖にはウッド川が流れ込みますが、水量の季節変動により土地が均され、干潟が形成されています。この干潟は北米でも有数の渡り鳥の繁殖地として知られています。
地上の様子はこちらです。
参考文献： Thomas Pesquet’s Tweet
地球俯瞰画像を見る： LiVEARTH
[Earthview Wonders] No.1287: Old Wives Lake🇨🇦
Astronaut Thomas Pesquet captured from ISS Old Wives Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada. Still with the remaining ice sheets, spring has come to the area.
Old Wives Lake is a shallow saline lake in south central Saskatchewan. The lake is fed by the Wood River but seasonal water relatively flattened the terrain, and as such results in significant mudflats. A Migratory Bird Sanctuary was established at the lake on March 9, 1925. This lake, in conjunction with Reed Lake and Chaplin Lake, forms a site of hemispheric importance in the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network. It was designated in April 1997, and is “one of the most important inland sites for migratory birds in North America”.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Thomas Pesquet’s Tweet
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