Summary: but it can get a good image of the Black Sea on a clear day Note the Bosporus in the lower left corner of the image and the delta of the Danube River on the western coast of the sea Recently geologists Walter Pitman and William Ryan suggested that the Black Sea had been a freshwater lake at one time and it became an anoxic marine basin fairly recently Around 5600 B C
Image Dimensions: 526 x 404
Image originally found here.