Cool illusions #5

[AC_A340-500]

Perhaps it's a salt lake, and the more intense looking center part has an amount of shallow water on it. The surrounding part is dry already leaving it more pale-looking. That's my guess. Don't really know that much about salt lakes, other than it roughly meets the geographic area you described. I think the Bonneville Salt Flats are in that area, where they do those top-speed runs.

[AIRLNRGUY]

I am talking about the entire picture, I think it looks like something on the ground that somehow transitions to a cloud or something like that.

[AC_A340-500]

I guess that would make it a salt lake. Which part of the picture specifically, were you talking about? The entire white area? Or the even lighter looking white area in the middle?

[AIRLNRGUY]

It was taken about 100 miles east of Reno around 12 noon according to the map.

[AC_A340-500]

Well I see a frozen lake (or perhapes a salt lake). Bigger lakes remain frozen longer than smaller lakes in the springtime. But depending on where you were, it may indeed have been a salt lake. Then it looks like there's a fog bank in the process of being burned-off in the middle of the lake. Was the picture taken during the morning? Where was the picture taken (over Utah, California, Nevada)?

Near the bottom of the picture, there's a spot of condensation due to the window's vent hole.

[indian airlines]

It seems to be something on the window?

[AIRLNRGUY]

Here is a pic I took on my last trip. Is it a cloud or something on the ground?...