File:Lake Winnipeg (MODIS 2018-05-10).jpg

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The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this true-color image of the icy lake on May 6, 2018.

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English: Despite the lengthening days an increasing sunlight of spring, ice continued to cover Lake Winnipeg in early May 2018. Ice also covered Lake Winnipegosis, in the west, and Lake Manitoba, located south of Lake Winnipegosis. A set of smaller lakes located between the southern tips of the two lakes shows that the temperatures in the region have begun to climb, with a small amount of ice surrounded by the blue of open water.

Lake Winnipeg is the 6th largest lake in Canada and the 10th largest freshwater lake in the world. The waters stretch across 23,750 square kilometers (9,170 sq. mi) of the Canadian province of Manitoba, but the drainage basin encompasses nearly 1,000,000 square kilometers (386,102 sq. mi) and is home to more than 7 million people.

Lake Winnipeg, along with Lake Winnipegosis and Lake Manitoba, were once part of Lake Agassiz, a prehistoric glacial lake. As glaciers melted at the end of the last glacial period, Lake Agassiz expanded into a vast waterway. It has been estimated that about 13,000 years ago the waters covered much of present-day Manitoba, northwest Ontario, northern Minnesota, eastern North Dakota and Saskatchewan.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this true-color image of the icy lake on May 6, 2018.
Date Taken on 6 May 2018
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Lake Winnipeg (direct link)

This image or video was catalogued by Goddard Space Flight Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: 2018-05-10.

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Author Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
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