Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans. Landsat image (brightened and autoequalized by me) Source:http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/landsat_new_orleans_nfl_lrg.jpg

The city of New Orleans is on the southern shore below the lake. The Lake Pontchartrain causeway can clearly be seen bisecting the lake. To the upper left is Lake Maurepas. The city of Slidell, Louisiana can be seen at the top right of the photo.

"This image was collected by the Landsat 7 satellite on April 26, 2000." [page 207. Johnston, A. K., and National Air and Space Museum. (2004), Earth from space : Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, 272 p. pp., Firefly Books, Buffalo, N.Y. https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0627/2005357167-b.html]

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