When dry, Lake Frome is one of the whitest salt lakes in the southern hemisphere. However, following heavy rains the lake can reach up to 100 kilometres long, and 40 kilometres wide.

BEFORE: Lake Frome, South Australia, March 7, 2009. Picture: NASA SATELLITE images of Lake Frome, before and after the rains, look like beautiful watercolour paintings.

The team, from CSIRO's Earth Observation Centre, went to Lake Frome, about 500 kilometres north of Adelaide in South Australia. Their goal was to make sure that NASA's latest satellite is working ...

CSIRO scientists spend a week in a huge barren salt lake in Australia's interior helping to test a new NASA satellite ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It could be the brightest place on the planet. A walk on South Australia's Lake Frome is a desolate and perception-distorting ...

Lake Frome, one of the whitest salt lakes in the southern hemisphere is visible to the right. Unusually, this 12 February image shows it filled with brackish water that has flowed down the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It could be the brightest place on the planet. A walk on South Australia's Lake Frome is a desolate and perception-distorting ...