About this wallpaper
As seen from space, the Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA (41.5N, 112.5W) appears as two separate bodies of water with a narrow divider in the middle. At the turn of the century, a railroad bridge without culverts, was built across the lake and ever since, the water and salinity levels have been uneqal on either side. Fed by snowmelt from the nearby Wasatch Mountains, the lake in recent years has had record high water levels, threatening to flood the local areas.
Best use cases
- Profile or tile artwork, and displays close to a 1:1 or 5:4 shape.
- Desktops where you are happy to crop a little from the top and bottom.
- 4K monitors and TVs at native resolution; it also scales down cleanly to QHD and Full HD.
- Any other screen size: the Crop & Scale tool on this page exports the image at a custom resolution.
Resolution and display compatibility
This image is 4112 × 4178 pixels (≈1:1). The table shows what happens when it is scaled to fill common screens, calculated from those dimensions.
| Display | Resolution | Sharpness | Framing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full HD (1080p) | 1920 × 1080 | Sharp: scaled down to 47% of the original | Crops about 45% from the top and bottom |
| QHD (1440p) | 2560 × 1440 | Sharp: scaled down to 62% of the original | Crops about 45% from the top and bottom |
| 4K UHD | 3840 × 2160 | Sharp: scaled down to 93% of the original | Crops about 45% from the top and bottom |
| 16:10 laptop (WUXGA) | 1920 × 1200 | Sharp: scaled down to 47% of the original | Crops about 38% from the top and bottom |
| 16:10 QHD+ | 2560 × 1600 | Sharp: scaled down to 62% of the original | Crops about 38% from the top and bottom |
| Ultrawide QHD (21:9) | 3440 × 1440 | Sharp: scaled down to 84% of the original | Crops about 59% from the top and bottom |
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Download information
- The download is the original JPEG file, 4112 × 4178 pixels, 3.7 MB, with no recompression.
- The file is saved as
great-salt-lake-utah-usa-4112x4178.jpg. - No account is needed to download.
Source and license
- Author: NASA JSC.
- Source: not specified for this wallpaper.
- License: Public domain (NASA) ↗
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