Caption by Space Station Academy student: This image shows the Great Salt Lake. This lake is the largest salt water lake in the Western Hemisphere and the biggest remnant of the prehistoric Lake Bonneville. Due to the great amount of salt, it's density is unusually high, making the lake unable to sustain many types of life, it's biology is based on algae, few (uneatable) fishes and Wilson's Pharalopes (a type of bird). The beautiful colours of the Great Salt Lake, show a concentrated area of Potassium-Sulfate (silver), Magnesium-Chloride (white) and Chlorine gas (yellow and green), the red colour is algae. The Great Salt Lake used to be a very large lake, within the prehistoric times, but because of the warming climate it has begun to dry and one day maybe it won't exist. The importance of this lake to Utah's environment is transcendental, it changes a very hot climate to snowfall, as part of the effects caused by the interaction between cool air (the lake) and the hot air. It also helps to improve the population of the Wilson's Pharalopes, which are not in danger yet, but may be threatened in a few years.

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