Astronaut photograph taken by the STS-111 Space Shuttle crew of the Salton Sea, with the desert valleys—Imperial, Coachella and Mexicali—labeled. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory.

Astronaut photograph taken by the STS-111 Space Shuttle crew of the Salton Sea, with the desert valleys—Imperial, Coachella and Mexicali—labeled. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory.

Astronaut photograph taken by the STS-111 Space Shuttle crew of the Salton Sea, with the desert valleys—Imperial, Coachella and Mexicali—labeled. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory.

Follow her