Flooded Bonneville Salt Flats. Water from melting snow briefly covers the otherwise barren, dry, and waterless salt flats.

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In the summer, one can walk for miles out into the salt desert. The winter snow melt vanishes in late spring leaving a hard, flat, salt encrusted surface. It is so flat that the curvature of the earth is seen with the naked eye.

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Location: Wendover, Utah, USA
Photo credit: © Layne Naylor / Alamy / Afripics
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