[:ja]トーマス・マーシュバーン宇宙飛行士がISSから撮影したマリのファギビン湖です。
ファギビン湖は、サハラ砂漠の南端にあるマリの湖で、ティンブクトゥの西80km、ニジェール川の北75kmに位置し、小さな湖と水路でつながっています。毎年、洪水により十分な水の供給があれば、水が川から湖に流れ込み、水位を保てます。1970年代と1980年代のサヘル干ばつ以来、湖の乾燥が進み、2021年に完全に干上がってしまいました。
地上の様子はこちらです。
参考文献： Thomas Marshburn’s Tweet
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[Earthview Wonders] No.1500: Lake Faguibine, Mali🇲🇱
Astronaut Thomas Marshburn captured from ISS .
Lake Faguibine is a lake in Mali on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert situated 80 km west of Timbuktu and 75 km north of the Niger River to which it is connected by a system of smaller lakes and channels. In years when the height of the annual flood of the river is sufficient, water flows from the river into the lake. Since the Sahel drought of the 1970s and 1980s the lake has been mostly dry. Water has only rarely reached the lake and even when it has done so, the lake has been only partially filled with water. This has caused a partial collapse of the local ecosystem. In 2021, Lake Figuibine is entirely dry.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Thomas Marshburn’s Tweet
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