incredibly clear satellite pics of the great lakes.

[mopinko]

https://www.woodtv.com/bills-blog-2/incredibly-clear-satellite-pics-of-the-great-lakes/

[sanatanadharma]

1. Look at the faint Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit traces

Looking at the faint Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit traces against the largeness of the land shows how humanity, for all its urbanity, remains as though invisible.

Yet that invisible brings about vast changes on earth in short changes of time.
It is as though humanity is an invisible virus deranging our local cosmic-body system(s), the atmosphere, the biosphere, the hydrosphere, even the geosphere; differently seen orderly systems with the whole.

[Fla Dem]

24. Map for reference. Great photo.

[LakeVermilion]

2. On the Lake Superior photo

you can look at the pristine Boundary Waters in the arrowhead of Minnesota and continuing into Ontario. Just beautiful!

[TNNurse]

3. Thanks so much for this.

In 2019, I achieved my goal of seeing all the Great Lakes. The last was Superior and included a boat ride and seeing the Pictured Rocks. It also included a ferry trip that on the way to Mackinac Island took us briefly onto Lake Michigan before heading back to Lake Huron. It was a treat.

[luvtheGWN]

4. Hey, I can see my house (almost)!

At the top (mouth) of the Niagara River connecting Lakes Erie and Ontario! Woohoo!

[lagomorph777]

18. You might live next door to the house where I grew up.

It's blue today...

[Pepsidog]

5. Good free documentary on You Tube about how the lakes were formed by glaciers over many ice ages.

[COL Mustard]

9. I Think I Saw That One A Few Weeks Ago

About the ancient rift valleys and the salt deposits.

[Pepsidog]

20. That's it. It was a History channel production.

[COL Mustard]

22. That Was Interesting

I'm a geography/geology geek so I enjoyed it a lot. Learned some things that I hadn't known...like the rift valleys that formed some of the Lakes (or led to their formations)...I had always thought it was strictly glacial in nature.

[niyad]

6. KNR

[catbyte]

7. And the lack of snow cover is amazing, too. The only places showing snow

are the highlands around Cadillac and a bit to the north & lake effect along Lake Superior.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Very cool! And under the eastern three lakes (and MI, and going south) is 71 trillion tons of salt.

Which is something I also find really quite amazing.

https://www.mlive.com/entertainment/2017/07/detroit_salt_mines_inside_mich.html

The Finger Lakes are also pretty visible from space - they are much bigger than I realized.

[mopinko]

11. well that was fun.

clever writing and interesting.

[multigraincracker]

10. Here is a view of Lake Superior from the top of Mt Arvon.

The highest point in Michigan, 1,979 ft above sea level. My GF took a picture of me standing on the bronze plaque that says that. I say it is a picture of the Highest Person in Michigan at that point. It's a wonderful drive up the road that takes you there. It's a pretty rough road, so make sure your car has some ground clearance.

Thanks for the photo. I can almost make out my 2 acres on the Lake Huron photo.

[pamdb]

12. Great lakes

That’s why we live there. Kind of makes up for the lack of sun and the winters. Although
I have to say,the last two winters, not so bad. I think we used our snowblower maybe a total of 10 times, if that, total for both winters.

[mopinko]

13. yup. i'm 6 blocks from michigan.

dont know where i'd be w/o my mother, the lake.

[gibraltar72]

14. That's me on the middle of the wrist.

[gibraltar72]

15. Great Lakes tour on motorcycle is one of my cherished memories.

[JohnnyRingo]

16. I imagine those are the Finger Lakes

In NY South of Lake Ontario and East of Niagara Falls.

I didn't read the article yet, but I bet this is a composition of a bunch of photos to get one with no cloud cover.

[mopinko]

21. nope. it was a single cloudless day.

[dhol82]

17. I'm amazed by how much Lake Erie is silting up.

[lagomorph777]

19. It's always been the shallowest (and most polluted).

I think it's a lot better these days, though.

[dhol82]

25. Interesting.