Today’s Image of the Day comes thanks to the NASA Earth Observatory and features a look the Great Bitter Lake in Egypt.

The Great Bitter Lake is located along the Suez Canal intended as a location where ships can change their position before proceeding to ports on either end.

Before the the canal was built, the lake was merely a big salt flat that could never manage to gather enough water.

This image was captured by an astronaut on board the International Space Station.

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By Rory Arnold, Earth.com Staff Writer

Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory