It looks like salt to me. Snow would be up on the hills too.

Sunny side up valley?

Nope! Though that would be a yummy place to live (sorry if I'm egging you on, but it's a good yolk.)

First wild guess: Burning Man festival (Black Rock City) near Gerlach NV ?

No sir, not NV.

I have to go to a webinar so I'll be back in about an hour and a half!

San Pedro de Atacama, Chile?
Lake Natron in northern Tanzania?
Laguna Colorada, Bolivia?

No
No
No

:)

I guess I should give some kind of hint. It's in the Americas.

As for searching by characteristic, how would you describe it?

I was thinking The Plain of Fried Eggs.

Yessir!

Wow! How did you find it? It looks nothing like the first picture. Well done!

The colours of the spots indicated minerals other than salt, I found it using a search for minerals salt & lake

Where is?

http://cellar.org/2012/masdf1.jpg

Mars. What's that giant valley they have?