Why Is This Lake PINK?

Published: 18 October 2021
on channel: Atlas Pro
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While taking a closer look at the features of East Africa for my last video, I happened upon an interesting site. Not too far to the northwest of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest mountains, there lies a lake with an unbelievably but also undeniably pink lake. Today, we're getting to the bottom of why and how this peculiarity exists, and what it's implications are beyond Earth.

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https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima...

https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelve...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

http://www.fao.org/3/ab728e/ab728e06.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Na...

https://microbiologysociety.org/publi...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/...


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