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 "status": "approved",
 "publish_date": "2026-09-26",
 "title": "Lake Poop\u00f3, Bolivia, August 2017 and August 2025",
 "summary": "Late dry-season views of the basin in 2017 and 2025 show the extent of exposed salt and playa relative to open water, and the partial recovery of the lake over eight years.",
 "place": {
  "name": "Lake Poop\u00f3, Oruro, Bolivia",
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   "width": 960,
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   "alt": "Satellite image from August 2017 of the Lake Poop\u00f3 basin: a bright white salt flat filling most of the frame, with a green and brown pool of water in the northern basin and brown mountains either side.",
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   "label": "2025-08-15",
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    "S2C_MSIL2A_20250815T143801_R096_T19KFU_20250815T191413"
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   "webp": "/media/plate-poopo-2025.381fcc8a.webp",
   "width": 960,
   "height": 540,
   "alt": "The same basin in August 2025, showing how much of the salt flat is water and how much remains exposed lakebed.",
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 "sensor": {
  "source": "Sentinel-2",
  "product": "Sentinel-2 Level-2A true-color image, four tiles (19KFU, 19KFV, 19KGU, 19KGV), relative orbit 96",
  "catalog": "Microsoft Planetary Computer STAC, collection sentinel-2-l2a"
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 "modality": "true-color",
 "themes": [
  "water",
  "deserts"
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 "lane": "earth-systems",
 "region": {
  "country": "bolivia",
  "admin": "Oruro"
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 "occasions": [],
 "overlays": [],
 "rights": {
  "imagery": "Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2017, 2025. Copernicus Sentinel data is free, full, and open.",
  "overlay": "",
  "render": "Heimdall Research",
  "credit": "Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2017, 2025."
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  "analysis": true
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 "related": {
  "observations": [],
  "field_notes": [],
  "datasets": []
 },
 "path": "/observations/lake-poopo-bolivia-2017-2025/",
 "acquired_text": "2017-08-07 and 2025-08-15",
 "resolution_text": "60 m ground sample distance",
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 "url": "https://heimdallresearch.com/observations/lake-poopo-bolivia-2017-2025/",
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 "author": "Heimdall Research"
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