http://spaceexplorationnews.com/topic/great-salt-lake2010-04-10T00:04:32Z2010-04-10T00:04:32ZAP Newstag:spaceexplorationnews.com,2010-04-10:/photo/shrinking-salt-lake-956398p/

In this July 17, 2007 file photo, a plastic bucket lies half buried in the dried out bed of the <a title="Great Salt Lake" href="/topic/Great+Salt+Lake" >Great Salt Lake</a>, northwest of <a title="Salt Lake City" href="/topic/Salt+Lake+City" >Salt Lake City</a>. All summer and into the fall of 2008, warm temperatures kept evaporation humming, drawing down the lake to near-record low levels and exposing more shore than normal. But the shrinking appears finally to have stopped. (AP Photo/Douglas...