Satellite radar image from the TerraSAR-X sensor of the summit of Cleveland Volcano showing the summit crater and growth of the lava dome. The summit crater is about 200 meters across. Note that satellite radar images have some inherent topographic distortion due to the manner in which they are collected. Picture Date: August 29, 2011. Credit: Dave Schneider, Zhong Lu, AVO/USGS. (via AVO)
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Satellite radar image from the TerraSAR-X sensor of the summit of Cleveland Volcano showing the summit crater and growth of the lava dome. The summit crater is about 200 meters across. Note that satellite radar images have some inherent topographic distortion due to the manner in which they are collected. Picture Date: August 29, 2011. Credit: Dave Schneider, Zhong Lu, AVO/USGS. (via AVO)

Fuente: avo.alaska.edu

The photo above showing a delicately balanced boulder was captured in the ablation zone of the Matanuska Glacier near Anchorage, Alaska. This angular rock, about 10 ft (3 m) across, was transported by the glacier from far up the valley. Eventually, the remaining bit of ice will melt out from underneath it leaving behind a large, isolated rock — a glacial erratic. Photo taken on July 29, 2009. Credit: Mark Meyer. (via EPOD)
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The photo above showing a delicately balanced boulder was captured in the ablation zone of the Matanuska Glacier near Anchorage, Alaska. This angular rock, about 10 ft (3 m) across, was transported by the glacier from far up the valley. Eventually, the remaining bit of ice will melt out from underneath it leaving behind a large, isolated rock — a glacial erratic. Photo taken on July 29, 2009. Credit: Mark Meyer. (via EPOD)

Fuente: epod.usra.edu

uniformitarianism: Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska Alaska’s smallest national park, Kenai Fjords contains one of the country’s largest ice fields. Harding Ice Field feeds 38 glaciers including Bear Glacier (above), which is the park’s largest, and Exit Glacier, the only one accessible by road. The area’s fjords are carved by the glaciers as they move downhill away from the ice field. (Click through for more).
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Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska

Alaska’s smallest national park, Kenai Fjords contains one of the country’s largest ice fields. Harding Ice Field feeds 38 glaciers including Bear Glacier (above), which is the park’s largest, and Exit Glacier, the only one accessible by road. The area’s fjords are carved by the glaciers as they move downhill away from the ice field. (Click through for more).

Earth from Space: Yukon Delta (by europeanspaceagency) This Envisat image features Alaska’s Yukon Delta, where the Yukon River fans out into a labyrinth of distributaries before emptying into the Bering Sea. The Yukon, North America’s fifth-longest river system, flows some 3190 km across central Alaska in the US before emptying into Norton Sound (top left). This image was created by combining three Envisat’s Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) acquisitions (19 November 2009, 8 April 2010 and 13 May 2010) over the same area. The colours represent changes in the surface between acquisitions. Credit: ESA.
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Earth from Space: Yukon Delta (by europeanspaceagency)

This Envisat image features Alaska’s Yukon Delta, where the Yukon River fans out into a labyrinth of distributaries before emptying into the Bering Sea. The Yukon, North America’s fifth-longest river system, flows some 3190 km across central Alaska in the US before emptying into Norton Sound (top left). This image was created by combining three Envisat’s Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) acquisitions (19 November 2009, 8 April 2010 and 13 May 2010) over the same area. The colours represent changes in the surface between acquisitions. Credit: ESA.

Fuente: Flickr / europeanspaceagency

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