We could be looking at Mars except for the marshes and that blue atmosphere in the background. Maybe this is what a terraformed Mars may look like someday. Instead, you are looking at Lake Chad and a dust plume as captured by the International Space Station (ISS). NASA explains:
This east-looking image, taken by astronauts aboard the International
Space Station, shows landscapes of the arid Sahara (image left) and the
darker vegetation of the wetter semi-arid tropical woodland known as the
Sahel (image right). The dark green marshes of Lake Chad stand out in
the foreground of this view. Even though it is more than 200 km long,
Lake Chad is the small remnant of a vast lake that has repeatedly
occupied most of the region in this view in the recent geological past.
This lake basin have stretches from the foreground almost 1000 km to
the foot of the Tibesti Mountains (image top left). The lowest slopes of
the Tibesti show the remnants of great deltas.
The image also
captures an active dust plume—partly obscured by the so-called Canada
Arm of the Space Station. The dust rises from the white mud flats of
the ancient lake bed (image top left). Lofted into the atmosphere by
northeasterly winds, dust from this basin often reaches the Atlantic
Ocean, thousands of km to the west. Occasionally this dust is even
carried by weather systems as far as the Americas.
Check out this photo and 15 others listed among the
best ISS Earth images of 2015.
