Sodium breathtaking🧂 It’s always worth taking the scenic route. Shown here we see a snapshot captured by astronaut Shane Kimbrough (Astro_kimbrough) at the precise moment when fellow astronaut and spacewalker Megan McArthur (astro.megan) released the Cygnus spacecraft just above Salt Lake City, Utah last week! Did you know? 🧐 Lakes cover about 4 percent of the Earth’s land surface? Many of the largest ones (by area) are salty: Utah’s Great Salt Lake, the Caspian Sea (arguably the world’s biggest lake), Iran’s Lake Urmia, and the Dead Sea. Just how salty are these lakes? That depends on location and season. The Dead Sea has a salinity of 34 percent, while the Great Salt Lake varies between 10 and 30 percent; the same is true of Lake Urmia. Credit: Shane Kimbrough #NASA #ISS #Cygnus #SaltLakeCity #GreatSaltLake #Views #Astronaut #Salty #Lakes